Old Keen Kutter Knives

[Duffer]

Dan those are some great additions to your Keen Kutter collection! What a great way to start the 2018 vintage knife collecting season I really like that Walden made Jack with beautiful pick bone curved handles

[peanut740]

Lloyd,that's Walden Knife,not Schrade.

[Duffer]

Yeah thanks Roger I realized my error and corrected it

[danno50]

thanks for the comments Roger and Lloyd, I am very happy with that jack, very sturdy feeling.
Dan

[Pile Driver]

Here's an older one that probably falls into the boys knife category. It's just shy of 3" long a mini jack.

[danno50]

Very nice, Pile Driver!
Dan

[galvanic1882]

Very nice!

[peanut740]

Nice

[tongueriver]

Here's an older one that probably falls into the boys knife category. It's just shy of 3" long a mini jack.

Beautiful minty small jack!

[JohnR]

Picked up this rusty E.C. Simmons Keen Kutter bare end jack, pattern 2108. Has seen little use, blades are full but the pen has a perfect half moon out of it, only thing I can figure is someone wanted a wire stripper. Bone is really nice.

[danno50]

Lovely old Keen Kutter jack, John! Almost full blades and beautiful bone. Too bad someone took that chunk out of the pen blade. Makes a person wonder why?? Looks like it was done on purpose?
Dan

[JohnR]

Thanks Dan, definitely done on purpose, not a hack job it is very well done but I don't know why, one of those mysteries we get from collecting old knives.
I am thinking wire stripper but it would have to be for large gauge wire.

[edge213]

It's still a good looking old knife.

[danno50]

The next few posts are going to be the knives I picked up at the 2018 OKCA show. First off are two Simmons Hardware Co. Germany knives. First is a 3 5/8" doctor's knife, then a 3" whittler.

[danno50]

Next are two Simmons Hardware Co knives. First a 3 5/8" bone handled jack and a 2 7/8" 4 blade senator with a fancy scroll Keen Kutter etch.

[danno50]

Next up are two peanuts: A older K713 and a 50's era K838, likely made by Schrade? Both are 2 7/8" in length.

[danno50]

Next are three lobsters: First is a K0443, made between 1915 and 1929 according to Sellens, has a faint etched pattern number; next is a K0444, made between 1917 and 1920 according to Sellens, has an etched pattern number and salesman ink; last three pics are a K5035SSG, made between 1910 and 1920 according to Sellens, has an etched pattern number and faint salesman ink, has also suffered some mal storage with significant pitting on the end of the main blade.

[danno50]

Finally here are two two blade jacks: first a K7727 dogleg jack, 3 1/2", made between 1917 and 1934 according to Sellens, has a faint blade etch; and a K2198 3/4 jumbo jack, 4", made between 1930 to 1934 according to Sellens.
I believe both knives were made very close to the same time for the following reasons: very similar bone, identical shields, both tang stamps have the ears at the top of the wedge and both knives tang stamps that have Made in USA under the Keen Kutter, rather than the more common St. Louis Mo..

[peanut740]

Dan,I really like the last 2 jacks,they are A+.The Simmons doctors knife I believe is a so called Jim Parker factory find from the early 2000's.He put those out that had that deep Hornet blade stamp.I think there were a couple other patterns also.They supposedly were old parts and he had put together at the Olbertz factory in Germany.

[danno50]

Thanks for the kind comment on the jacks and the information on the doctors knife, Roger. I thought the doctors knife looked to blockily hafted to be a very old knife, also got it fairly cheap.

[doglegg]

Quiet an impressive display of knives, Danno. I like that little slender one at the top and the Jacks at the bottom best.

[msteele6]

Great old knives.

I don't think I've ever seen one of the knives that Sellens' calls "Japanese Pearl" the K0444.

The two knives with the "ears" appear to be Winchester-Walden knives unlike almost every other one I've seen.

[danno50]

Thanks for the kind comments doglegg and msteele6. Msteele, I was thinking the two jacks were most likely made by Winchester, but wanted to see what you thought of them.

[peanut740]

Dan,I agree the jacks are Winchester.I have a Dogleg Winchester jack that is the 1st cousin to your KK dogleg.

[LongBlade]

Nice showing of some sweet Keen Kutters Dan ... The dogleg jacks are really cool - love the bone and those big master blades