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[Ivoryman]

Gorgeous knife, fabulous score, got another one past the banners too. Right on and congrats.

[Quick Steel]

Q: Exceptionally sleek and handsome.

[jerryd6818]

Neither sleek nor handsome, this Kershaw 3/4 Ton. (At least it was low priced) I want a black 1/2 Ton (3/8" shorter) but obviously wasn't paying attention to what I was doing.

[TripleF]

Case 1920 - 1940
Robert Klass florists knife

[dweb1897]

This Queen #27 Muskrat has Casein handles. I didn't know what Casein was, this is what I found....

Casein is a high quality milk protein product,. Casein is similar to celluloid, and can be highly colored, is easy to grind, sand, and file, but, it without the risks of flammability or toxic fumes that celluloid has and it doesn't out-gas like celluloid. Casein was produced in a New Zealand factory in 1912. By 1914, 22 dairy factories were making Casein. Casein was also used in England to produce glues, pens, knife handles, and buttons.

If anyone knows what year this knife was produced I'd sure like to know.

[FRJ]

That is a beauty of a knife, dweb1897.
The most unique Queen I have ever seen.

[sunknife]

Gorgeous knife dweb.

[dweb1897]

Thanks for the good words. I did a little checking and found GEC made a #73 in Ivory Casein in 2007.

[bighomer]

Got a couple of pac.rims this week.

[steve99f]

This Queen #27 Muskrat has Casein handles. I didn't know what Casein was, this is what I found....

Casein is a high quality milk protein product,. Casein is similar to celluloid, and can be highly colored, is easy to grind, sand, and file, but, it without the risks of flammability or toxic fumes that celluloid has and it doesn't out-gas like celluloid. Casein was produced in a New Zealand factory in 1912. By 1914, 22 dairy factories were making Casein. Casein was also used in England to produce glues, pens, knife handles, and buttons.

If anyone knows what year this knife was produced I'd sure like to know.

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I checked the Queen website for Queen Classics under the SFO tab. It looks like that muskrat was fairly recent since it have the Queen Classics blade etch.

[Brumbydownunder]

All the way from Miami with Hurricane Irma for a tail wind in quick time Nice #77 Yankee Jack in light colored Ebony Wood

[Chayes]

Just got a nice Buck canoe with jinted bone scales that looks to have been carried a while as the bolsters have fine scratches but has never been sharpened. My last canoe has stone scales, possibly agate.

[gsmith7158]

I got these two Camillus 72's in today. My intentions are to make one good first gen from the two.

[Tsar Bomba]

This Queen #27 Muskrat has Casein handles. I didn't know what Casein was, this is what I found....

If anyone knows what year this knife was produced I'd sure like to know.

I can't give an exact year but I believe it to be post-2014 Daniels-era Queen. I have a short-run Skate Key Barlow (three, actually) with the exact same stamp.

I got these two Camillus 72's in today. My intentions are to make one good first gen from the two.

You nailed it on the replacement mark-side bone with that short-line, a perfect match! Are you going to rehandle that one after you're doing "fixing" the first-gen?

I need to get back on the ball as far as these 72s go before they all vanish. I still have only one first-gen...

[gsmith7158]

Hey Tony I'm going to let Goldpan do the work on them. If I get one good first gen out of it I'll be happy.

[DM11]

All the way from Miami with Hurricane Irma for a tail wind in quick time Nice #77 Yankee Jack in light colored Ebony Wood DSCN6392.JPG

Good score!

[jerryd6818]

From eBay to my house, this 3" Powr-Kraft 84-64 Jack, probably made by Schrade. Good condition, smooth action and great snap. What more could you ask for, for cheap? Ain't she cute?

[bighomer]

Got a rawhide series rat today.

[garddogg56]

Thats a beauty Homer Nice Jerry Tsar whats the cutouts on the blade for?

[Tsar Bomba]

Thats a beauty Homer Nice Jerry Tsar whats the cutouts on the blade for?

GD, the secondary "blade" of the Barlow is a roller skate key. Apparently there are two sizes of square bolt that can be adjusted on vintage roller skates and this skate key is made to do so. Being more of a skateboard/motorcycle guy, I can't really speak to that use.

I've found more use for the tool as a screwdriver, prybar, and general "poke stuff I don't want to ruin the blade with" implement. Plus I do believe the dimensions of the larger cutout are close, if not identical, to the old Prest-O-Lite wrenches used on the valves of gas cans and related items, like headlights on antique cars -- and the tool is similar in form to some of the wrenches built into old pocket knives, like this jack I found in a Google search:

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[QTCut5]

A scrimshawed ivory Gerber Silver Knight with a little crack in the stern but still seaworthy.

~Q~

[dweb1897]

Thats a beauty Homer Nice Jerry Tsar whats the cutouts on the blade for?

GD, the secondary "blade" of the Barlow is a roller skate key. Apparently there are two sizes of square bolt that can be adjusted on vintage roller skates and this skate key is made to do so. Being more of a skateboard/motorcycle guy, I can't really speak to that use.

I've found more use for the tool as a screwdriver, prybar, and general "poke stuff I don't want to ruin the blade with" implement. Plus I do believe the dimensions of the larger cutout are close, if not identical, to the old Prest-O-Lite wrenches used on the valves of gas cans and related items, like headlights on antique cars -- and the tool is similar in form to some of the wrenches built into old pocket knives, like this jack I found in a Google search:

s-l225.jpg

I've heard that those cutouts were for adjusting acetylene gas miner's lamplights. Could have just been a story

[dweb1897]

I sent Herman a 13 Colony 275 Clasp., The stag was gorgeous but the blade had some rust and pitting. Herman had a blank blade for it if I could live with a weak tang stamp. I reckon I can live with the weak tang stamp.

[edge213]

Dweb, that is flat out gorgeous!!

[Quick Steel]

Q: That is a great pickup. Scrimshaw on ivory. Doesn't get much better than that.