KNIFE FINDS OF THE DAY

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Cool knife Joe, I like the stamp as well.

That is a spotless schrade olde cutler, nice pick up.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Here's a nice little folder I got recently. A very well made knife and very clean. 3 5/16".
I especially like the stamp.

Great picture of the Luxrite. Have never seen one before.

[FRJ]

Thank you Paul and OLDE CUTLER.

[OLDE CUTLER]

I picked up this boxed set today at one of the local antique malls that were having 20% off for Black Friday, and FREE lunch too!! Made by Schrade in 1985, tang stamped New York Knife. Number on box and on knife match, with papers. Into my Scout/camper collection it goes!!

[Quick Steel]

OLDE CUTLER:What a great find. I am totally green with envy. Truly a beautiful acquisition. Congrats!

[TripleF]

Magnificent score Olde Cutler!!!

[tongueriver]

You snagged a good one, there, Olde Cutler! If you know someone who kneeds another one, I have one.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Thanks, guys. See why my signature line is "Sometimes even the blind chicken finds corn". The owner had it marked $38, discounted it 20% off that, and I GOT FREE LUNCH besides!! He also had some Case and Remington Bullet knives that other customers were buying, and the prices on those were SKY HIGH!! So I went with the obvious. (FYI the free lunch was ham and cheese sandwiches, donuts, coffee and apple juice.)

[espn77]

Sounds like he paid you to take the knife

[djknife13]

Picked these up at a junk shop yesterday. No great old treasured high end knives but a couple rare names and a couple great users. The little 3 blade is a Ultra-Blade 3 spring that looks like it was made by Schrade, The celluloid is a Keen-Blade. I looked it up on line and they sent me back to a 2007 post on AAPK. It's probably made eons age by Imperial. The Buck 110 is a 2013. The other two are a Schrade 250T and a German pearl, but you probably knew that. All have full blades and all were grimy and gritty and gave me several enjoying hours of rust removal and hand cleaning and all now snap nicely, even the little pearl. ___Dave

[bighomer]

Great haul DJ nothing wrong with that pile, that 25OT is one tough customer.

[gino]

Picked up this one this morning at the flea market
1905-1928 Challenge Cutlery Co. Bridgeport Connecticut
Blades are full half stops with strong snap each way and crack free bone handles not bad for 8.00

[djknife13]

Nice shopping Gino. Beautiful knife.____Dave

[Tsar Bomba]

Picked up this one this morning at the flea market
1905-1928 Challenge Cutlery Co. Bridgeport Connecticut
Blades are full half stops with strong snap each way and crack free bone handles not bad for 8.00

You found a gem in a cowpie, IMO. I love that aspect of the construction of these early-20th pen knives. Big, thick snaps and strong half-stops, often on both blades. I have jacks and Barlows with two backsprings each thicker than the single-spring pen springs and yet the 100ish-year-old pen knives outsnap and outstop the jacks.

You guys have way, way better flea markets and swaps than we do.

[TripleF]

WOW.....knice score gino!!!

Picked this up at an estate sale today....looks civil war era doesn't it? Any info would be cool....can't see any markings.

[Quick Steel]

Scott: An interesting piece. Hope someone comes along with some information. My first thought is that it looks like kitchen cutlery. Maybe to slice pies, or bread.

[knife7knut]

Found these three reference books at a local antique shop today for $5 apiece.1979-1981-2003. Couldn't pass them up.

[garddogg56]

Out in the 100year + post and beam barn in a hollow where a beam use to be my son found a Hammer Brand stockman knife.We are going to research it just for family history

[treefarmer]

Gdogg,
That's pretty cool! Was the barn part of your family or some other family?
A little oil and a few strokes on a whet rock, that one would be ready for EDC duty. (just ignore the shrink-dink handles )
Treefarmer

[garddogg56]

TF family farm,Thats what I was thinking but I'll give it back to my son as he want to save it and find out which family member owned it

[FRJ]

That's very cool stuff right there, dogg.

Looks like an Imperial Hammer.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Cool find dogg. Those handles appear to have a schrade touch to them

[garddogg56]

Thanx Joe Thats what I was thinking also Knifeslinger

[kootenay joe]

Quote: "Those handles appear to have a schrade touch to them"
Yes i agree but this Imperial Hammer Brand knife is from before Imperial & Schrade were under Albert Baer's ownership i think. Anyone know when Imperial became part of Baer's empire ?
kj

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I think hammer brand was made by imperial for a short time post war before hammer brand was dropped entirely.