Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

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thumper your Merrimac set is a good one especially as it has the 'tumbler' (drinking glass that is not glass). Most of these sets of eating utensils do not have a container for drinking from. Your pics are not good so nature of the handle material cannot be guessed at. Some sets have ivory handles but more are imitation ivory.
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Miller Bro`s wrote:Nice ones Wayne! ::tu::

What is the handle material on the Muller and Schmidt?
The handles are some type of plastic not celluloid.
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OK thanks :wink:

Here is one that I have that is celluloid, I am just waiting for it to go " poof " ::paranoid:: :lol:
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Dimitri that Aerial sure looks fine. Hope the celluloid sticks around for another 100 or so. Love the auto motif on the handle. What's on the pile side?

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Thanks Wayne I hope it lasts another 100 years too!

I don`t have a picture on file but the other side has a picture of a steam ship on it.
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Some really nice knife kits recently, guys.

Here is my first eating set in this style.
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Does anyone know the value of a Robesons Pocket Outfit #50 in very good condition, from about 1930-1950? under the Robeson discussion, there are pictures posted of one of these kits, but that one in at least 20-30 years older than mine-
any insight would be greatly appreciated, with thanks..
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more photos here
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Nice kit Nigel! Welcome to AAPK! ::welcome::
I have the same kit in the same leather wallet but the name is A.K.B. The Kit, or something like that. I will have to find it and take some pics. I found mine in a house I rented in the 1970s. I had forgot I even had it.
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Waking up this old thread with this Camillus horn handle take apart set............
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Here's an old fork and a corkscrew that apparently belonged to a set.
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FRJ wrote:Here's an old fork and a corkscrew that apparently belonged to a set.
Joe, that one has a lot of class ::tu::
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I don't think one of these kits have been shown yet.
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Thank you, Dimitri.
Unique kit you showed last.
Corkscrews are rough on covers, (cracking) but this one has held up.
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This is an interesting thread, these old tool kit knives are really neat. I only have a couple, pictured below.
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Joe - That is nice - Perfect tool to open some wine and eat some appetizers ::tu:: :D ...

Dimitri - Now that is a cool set ::tu:: ... but am I seeing this right as it is hard to enlarge enough for my eyes - optional blades for the handle including a dagger??

Older Cutler - That Peres set is sweet and looks to be almost unused ::tu:: ...
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I think Dimitri's set with the odd blades is a specialty set, such as a cobbler or saddle-maker might use.

I'm quite sure he know's exactly what it is.

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Thanks Lee and Charlie.

It's a Farriers knife set, watch this video and you will see how some of the knives are used. The knives in the video are fixed blades not a kit like I have where you can swap blades.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rNB39PyQk
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This was a great thread to read thru. Some amazing kits here! I just got a 'new' tool kit...it's a Napanoch :D
It's the first time I've actually held one - it's surprisingly solid for something that's a century old. I could see this one giving another century or two of service. Talk about being built like a brick s#@thouse!
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Bought this little Richards kit from Scott. It's like new and very nice looking.
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Aye Jerry, 'tis a bonney wee scotch plaid knife set! ::tu:: Not sure which clan that tartan belongs to but my Scottish ancestors probably would recognize it. :lol:

Glad this old thread was revived as there's some interesting reading and amazing cutlery sets shown. I'll contribute this KA-BAR take-apart slot hobo set, recently shown here in another thread.

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Nice additions to the thread Jason, Jerry and Ken ::tu::

Here's a relatively extravagant chow kit, even has silver plated salt and pepper shakers!
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Nice, Dimitri. Do the shaker's tops open and close?
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Thanks Charlie ::tu::

No the tops just unscrew to fill, no mechanical way to close them off to stop spillage.
I have seen them with a ball of cotton inside to keep the contents inside.
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Nigel wrote:Does anyone know the value of a Robesons Pocket Outfit #50 in very good condition, from about 1930-1950? under the Robeson discussion, there are pictures posted of one of these kits, but that one in at least 20-30 years older than mine-
any insight would be greatly appreciated, with thanks..
I was going back and reading some old posts in this thread when I noticed that your Robeson set has the same markings as my Daniel Peres set, that is D.R.G.M. This is the German "Deutsches Reich Gebrauchs Muster" which translates as "German Reich Registered Design". The Daniel Peres set I have also has the Ale Keg stamping that they used on USA imported sets. Even though yours is Robeson, it must have been German made to have that D.R.G.M. marking.
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