Just a hello , update, and remeberence to those who are gone

[lt632ret]

Hello First of all I am not dead. However Joe my bartender is deceased. I included his picture at the bar he is wearing his WWII tank leather tank helmet and smoking a cigar. I was tough digging him up but I knew he would have wanted it that way. I very quickly took some pictures of a few new displays that I have put together there is a 75 edition and 85 and numerous others . I picked up a sea turtle ) which unless procured before 1910 is highly
illegal. This old boy belonged to a playright in New York it was in his personal art gallery. Yes I have all the correct papers it took the auction house 2 years to get the permits. This is what was known as tourtise on old knives. ive had a couple of offers from custom makers. A pair of real tourtise shell glasses goes as high as 1000 dollar have to buy them in France. A complete display of all folding Uncle Henrys with the original dies. There is a Nap display. and a bunch of other s... er I mean valuable artifacts. Diving helmet and knife , elephant foot real ( cane holder ). I don't even remember what else I just got a new battery for my old Mavica and popped in a floppy ( yes floppy ) . I still feel the most comfortable with my old Mavica. That is also why the pics aint great. We recently received our museum charter for the state of NY ( Same charter the the musuem of natural history is under ). We also are getting close to having a open knife museum with automatics. We have a building. I have not written or spoke about this because I dont like discussing coulda woulda shoulda until it is a done deal. I included a pic of the new building that is almost done so that I can finally walk around the house. Which now has so much s... er priceless artifacts that it is difficult to breath. Could not find the cat ( inside ) for 6 days. I also just procurred a parking meter so that I can put it in front of my house to make some money to buy knives. I forget what else I quickly took pics of. Needless to say I have been pretty jammed up I apoligize for not contributing more to the forum however I find
that I no longer have the patience to argue points That I know to be fact. So I have decided not to answer any questions. Herman Williams who is a friend of mine discussed the calendar knife incident which some of you may remember. He was supposed to have been contacted to verify the piece in question he assured me that the Schrade calendar knife was only made for one year and had that year embossed and only made one model and that he never verified the knife in question. Still when this individual lied about this I had members of this forum contact me and even after validating my comments over and over still questioned me. It is like most things if you lie and yell loud enough long enough some people will buy into your plan. If you don't believe me ask the president. Well now that should wear out my welcome for a while in any event enjoy the pics ( sorry on the quality) . By the way the interior of my building was done by our very own Eric Alber. Also these pics are just a token of the stuff added since i was posting. We will be looking for anyone who wishes to become a member of the Wawarsing historical and knife museum down the road, I will be explaining more of are plans once things are in place. This project has taken most of my attention especially the last couple of years but what the heck it took 8 years to get the law to allow it in the first place so at least it has tought me patience now if I could learn to forgive and forget then hell I might enter the clergy. Please keep our people in harms way in your hearts it is there efforts and those who came before who allow us the freedoms such as this forum to exist. LT PS thankyou for thinking of me and on there behalf thankyou for remembering those who have past on.

[lt632ret]

A few more pics

[orvet]

Hey LT,
Great to see all the new "valuable artifacts" you have picked up.
Glad you got your old camera fired up again. It is hard to replace things that are familiar, especially when they are good.
Good of you to share the pics with us.

Take care and come back again......soon.

Dale

[stockman]

Thanks for the post LT it was good to hear from you

Take Care
Stockman

[MITCH RAPP]

LT, great to hear from you! Thanks for the pictures of all your s... errrrrrr, I mean stuff, very nice! That Tortoise Shell is outstanding!

[tjmurphy]

Hey LT. Nice s..., er, artifacts. I use the same camera and you're right, it's tough changing when you get used to an old dinosaur like the Mavica, but the simplicity is astounding. The hardest part of that camera is finding a computer with a floppy drive. I had to buy an external drive. That shell sure would make some nice guitar picks. I'll give you 35-cents for a couple of pieces of it. Actually the tortoise picks go for anywhere from $50 to $75 ea. Anyway, welcome back.

[Sauconian]

Nice to hear from you Rich, and to see some of your latest additions.

Man, 'Ol Eric has worked wonders on that lean-to shed !

I just had a flashback to venison sausage.

Fran

[Mossdancer]

Hi LT:
Great to have your ramblings er intelligent writings back to enjoy and learn. I just got one of the small Schrade over Walden over NY USA two blade switchers. It is posted here in Knife Lore a couple of days ago under knives made before 1960. It is the small one like you have on page 87 except it does not have a file and it is a Dark Red Tortoise looking Cel.
Moss

[upnorth]

Welcome back, anytime, all the time, LT! I can't wait to visit the museum!!
Nice going Eric!!

[W5RWU]

Thanks LT, Talk to you soon .
W5rwu
Ps please dont take so long to post next time

[lt632ret]

The last pic that I posted was a Schrade case customized with a full set of Uncle henry knives even though the pics are not great it makes a decent reference for the novice if you can decern the individual knives, so I did some close ups in case any one would like to see them all ( NOTE Folders only not inclusive of sheath UH knives.) LT PS Thankyou all for the nice welcome words. PPS Of course for the astute student of the subject it would be interesting ( if anyone has an interest ) to see who among you could be the first to post the model numbers in order from left to right starting with the second pic ( the first is the one with the model knife and dies. ). Esoecially if you can do it without looking them up.

[gmusic]

Our resident Schrade expert is still among the living! Thanks for dropping by Lt and giving us an update.

The new project looks interesting! I nearly got a tattoo of a character looking frighteningly similar to your deceased tender, then I sobered up.

[W5RWU]

LT,ok here goes 804, 807, 706,897, 833 , 834 , 285 , 877 ,885
648, 627,lb4,
lb1, 705 ,lb2 ,lb5 ,lb3
lb7 , 707 , lb 8
127 , 124 , 197, 5uh , 12uh and a 227uh
Randy

[csmith9333]

LT

Sorry about the cat - Elaine got a kick out of that - She was some impressed with your knives. Anyway things are great in Newfoundland and it is great to see you posting again. Save a small spot in the museum - would like to donate something for posterity - Ha!

CES

[Don Luis]

LT. It's great to hear from you and see some of your stuff, I haven't visited much lately either, seems the world keeps on turning and moves us around elsewhere, but we gotta come back every once in a while.

Luis