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Taylor witness stockman.

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I picked this senior sized Stockman up this am at a market, i cleaned it up , i buffed up the covers , they seem like buffalo? What do you guys think, plus im thinking 50's? ::tu::
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It looks like Buffalo horn to me.
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edge213 wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 3:08 pm It looks like Buffalo horn to me.
Nice knife.
::tu:: its what im thinking as ive got some knives with Buffalo and this looks the same.
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That's a beauty, Paul.
Sweet score!
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Steve Warden wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:13 pm That's a beauty, Paul.
Sweet score!
Thanks Steve ::tu::
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If it's buffalo you should be able to see at least a few strands somewhere along the handle, especially with a loupe. Might also be some small "dots" at the ends, which would be the cut off ends of the strands.

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ea42 wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:25 pm If it's buffalo you should be able to see at least a few strands somewhere along the handle, especially with a loupe. Might also be some small "dots" at the ends, which would be the cut off ends of the strands.

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Eric ill check it out ::tu::

Found some pics of what i think is this knife , sadly ive no clue when this catalogue was from .
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Went back on the page i got the pics from and the guy thinks 1950's or earlier .
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G'day! I've owned some old school taylors witness Barlow's before and I could never work out the scales
I thought at first ebony then a synthetic, Bakelite maybe? I would be interested to find out. Good luck
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Warwick wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:48 pm G'day! I've owned some old school taylors witness Barlow's before and I could never work out the scales
I thought at first ebony then a synthetic, Bakelite maybe? I would be interested to find out. Good luck
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Thanks Warwick ::tu:: im thinking these are possibly synthetic? The main reason is the polished up as easily as swiss army knife covers , plus the light scratches came out easily as well, but ill keep digging, i cant find any online old Taylor eye witness catalogues :(
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It looks like synthetic to me, hard to tell now that you buffed it.

Take the back side of the knife and rub it briskly against a pair of jeans or a cotton rag and then smell the handle, if its synthetic or organic you will be able to tell the difference.
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Miller Bro's wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:07 am It looks like synthetic to me, hard to tell now that you buffed it.

Take the back side of the knife and rub it briskly against a pair of jeans or a cotton rag and then smell the handle, if its synthetic or organic you will be able to tell the difference.
Cheers mate ill give that a go ::tu::
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G'day again Paul! Thanks for responding to my message; it , might be worth your while to log on to the site ' Paddy's potato peelers' on you - tube. He's an English bloke and he seems to be pretty keen on Taylors . As an aside I found my Dads T.W Barlow that he bought when he returned to the small Australian bush town after the second war & Korea.I found the knife after he died in 1986. In 1995 at 20 I sent away to the old knife shop in my home town where they still had an new one in its box in the windows for $50. Treasures..
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Warwick wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:44 am G'day again Paul! Thanks for responding to my message; it , might be worth your while to log on to the site ' Paddy's potato peelers' on you - tube. He's an English bloke and he seems to be pretty keen on Taylors . As an aside I found my Dads T.W Barlow that he bought when he returned to the small Australian bush town after the second war & Korea.I found the knife after he died in 1986. In 1995 at 20 I sent away to the old knife shop in my home town where they still had an new one in its box in the windows for $50. Treasures..
Hi mate, i think paddy is on a FB group im on ? Ill check but the name seems familiar ::tu:: thanks Warwick ::tu::
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That's a nice example which does not appear in pre-WWII Taylors catalogs. Enclosed is a Taylor catalog illustration from 1957 showing the posted knife in between two other similar models. Interesting to see it in a two-blade variation as well as a three-blade model with bolsters. The handles are probably Xylonite (English celluloid equivalent) which is listed as a material that Taylor used. Post-WWII catalogs are often a bit sketchy on information as compared to pre war catalogs. Nice knife and Taylor examples are not commonly found in the United States.
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Mason wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:59 pm That's a nice example which does not appear in pre-WWII Taylors catalogs. Enclosed is a Taylor catalog illustration from 1957 showing the posted knife in between two other similar models. Interesting to see it in a two-blade variation as well as a three-blade model with bolsters. The handles are probably Xylonite (English celluloid equivalent) which is listed as a material that Taylor used. Post-WWII catalogs are often a bit sketchy on information as compared to pre war catalogs. Nice knife and Taylor examples are not commonly found in the United States.

Thanks for the info Mason ::tu:: ive not been able to find many online catalogues for Taylor so this really helps me out ::tu::
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