Traditonal Hunters - Fifty years old (1965) and older…...

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks Roger, beautiful knives you have posted!

[Miller Bro's]

Here's a few more that I have pictures of, then I'll start on the fixed blades

[LongBlade]

Dimitri - All nice hunters posted above and great variety - thanks for sharing ... The Union Cut is interesting to me - a folding hatchet with the clip blade - I guess to severe limbs etc ... Some real nice bone on those knives like the Wostenholm for example... Lets see the fixed blades

[danno50]

Wow, over a page of beautiful hunters since I last looked. Great knives, and as Lee said, nice variety posted by Roger, Dimitri and Joe!
Dan

[Miller Bro's]

Dimitri - All nice hunters posted above and great variety - thanks for sharing ... The Union Cut is interesting to me - a folding hatchet with the clip blade - I guess to severe limbs etc ... Some real nice bone on those knives like the Wostenholm for example... Lets see the fixed blades

Thanks Lee!

The Union knife/hatchet is the boy scout version marketed to scouts for chopping small pieces of wood for kindling, etc. The shield has boy scouts on it they also had them unmarked for sale to hunters and outdoors men.

[Miller Bro's]

Here's a few hunting knives.......

[LongBlade]

Awesome fixed blades and I really like the variety in those examples Dimitri ... The Wade & Butcher is just pure classic hunter, the Underwood (London retailer if I'm not mistaken) is different to my eye having more of a double-edged blade and the last one (unmarked ??) has a great gnarly "thorny" stag handle with one heck of a blade (and a nice sheath too)... (Thorny for lack of a better word but just came to mind looking at it )...

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks Lee, the knife is completely unmarked, I wish I knew who made it!

The blade is something like 12" long IIRC and the blade grinds were done by a very skilled Cutler. The handle is very gnarly and feels good in the hand, right down to the handmade sheath I like everything about this knife

[FRJ]

Beautiful knives, Dimitri.

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks for looking Joe

[peanut740]

Escelsior Knife Co, with "Hunters Favorite"etch.

[FRJ]

That's a real beauty there, Roger.
A Northfield I assume.

[peanut740]

I would assume.

[LongBlade]

Great knife Roger ... If I am not mistaken at the NCCA show yesterday I saw the same knife and same etch but a Northfield stamp - and the knife was mint ... I guess that may not be surprising given the knives were made under the same roof for many years...

[peanut740]

Here you go Lee.

[LongBlade]

That's the one Roger ...

[FRJ]

HA!!! You had to figure Roger would have one like that too. Very nice, Roger!!

[Duffer]

Beautiful folders Roger—-thanks for sharing them with us and to think you have two possibly made under the same roof as Lee revealed—WOW!!!

[Sut Tatersaul]

Hi, All:
A few days ago, I bid on and won, at auction, a Marble's Woodcraft hunting knife. It arrived today, by the USPS. It is a true replica of my first Hunting knife. It has been used, and abused during it's many years of use. I bought it knowing that it would be in hard used condition, so i'm not disappointed. I will have to give it quite a bit of thought as to how much to clean it up, or to leave it as is. As of now, after eighty six years have passed, It seems as though, I have my old "first hunting knife", like I remember it, in my hands again. My original knife, was used by my mother, the last twenty + years of it's very useful life as her garden knife. It was lost in the shuffle at her estate sale. Lost, but not forgotten. Please forgive me for retelling this long true tale of my first traditional hunter- 50 yrs. old, and older. acquired in 1936.
Sut Tatersaul

[zp4ja]

Hi, All:
A few days ago, I bid on and won, at auction, a Marble's Woodcraft hunting knife. It arrived today, by the USPS. It is a true replica of my first Hunting knife. It has been used, and abused during it's many years of use. I bought it knowing that it would be in hard used condition, so i'm not disappointed. I will have to give it quite a bit of thought as to how much to clean it up, or to leave it as is. As of now, after eighty six years have passed, It seems as though, I have my old "first hunting knife", like I remember it, in my hands again. My original knife, was used by my mother, the last twenty + years of it's very useful life as her garden knife. It was lost in the shuffle at her estate sale. Lost, but not forgotten. Please forgive me for retelling this long true tale of my first traditional hunter- 50 yrs. old, and older. acquired in 1936.
Sut Tatersaul

Personally think that is very cool Sut. No need to forgive anything.
Thanks for sharing!
Jerry

[FRJ]

Sut, I'm glad you got those old memories back along with that knife. All the best.

[doglegg]

Good story Mr Tatersaul. I like it. Stories like that turn history from cotton to corduroy. Gives us texture. Glad it brought you memories and a little joy.

[treefarmer]

I have been enjoying this thread since it was begun in 2015 and following along tonight I realized I had not made a single post showing any 1965 and older traditional hunters. I've got several hunters and for sure there are some CASE XX's in the pile. Here are 2 that are special to me:
The 1st one is a Case my wife gave me our 1st Christmas, 1966. I used it hard and a few years later the pivot pen broke. The knife stayed in a drawer till after I became an AAPK member and found out what to do with a Case that had a broken pivot pen. It has the CASE XX over USA stamp 1964-1969. When Case returned the knife I thought they had sent a new one, it was polished like new! This one still lives in a box with a lot of other old Case knives.
The 2nd one is a Queen #39 that has no stamp. It belonged to an old fox hunter in our community. I got it from his widow, she too has gone on to meet her just reward. This old knife is the real deal, I've owned it probably 25 years and skinned and processed a pile of deer with it, this is my "go to" knife! Hard to see in the picture, but I have had to grind a small EZ open notch to open the secondary blade.

Christmas gift from wife, 1966.

Sweet ol' Queen, mighty comfortable in the hand!

Treefarmer

[woodwalker]

I have been enjoying this thread since it was begun in 2015 and following along tonight I realized I had not made a single post showing any 1965 and older traditional hunters. I've got several hunters and for sure there are some CASE XX's in the pile. Here are 2 that are special to me:
The 1st one is a Case my wife gave me our 1st Christmas, 1966. I used it hard and a few years later the pivot pen broke. The knife stayed in a drawer till after I became an AAPK member and found out what to do with a Case that had a broken pivot pen. It has the CASE XX over USA stamp 1964-1969. When Case returned the knife I thought they had sent a new one, it was polished like new! This one still lives in a box with a lot of other old Case knives.
The 2nd one is a Queen #39 that has no stamp. It belonged to an old fox hunter in our community. I got it from his widow, she too has gone on to meet her just reward. This old knife is the real deal, I've owned it probably 25 years and skinned and processed a pile of deer with it, this is my "go to" knife! Hard to see in the picture, but I have had to grind a small EZ open notch to open the secondary blade.003.JPG004.JPG
Treefarmer

Nice knives and enjoyed the story! Some knives are just really special to us!

[Sut Tatersaul]

Hi, All:
A few days ago, I bid on and won, at auction, a Marble's Woodcraft hunting knife. It arrived today, by the USPS. It is a true replica of my first Hunting knife. It has been used, and abused, during it's many years of use. I bought it knowing, that it would be in a hard used condition, so, I'm not disappointed. I will have to give it quite a bit of thought, as to how much to clean it up, or whether to leave it, as it is . Now, after 78 years have passed, It seems as though, I have my old "first hunting knife", like I remember it, in my hands again. My original knife, was used by my mother, the last twenty + years, of it's very useful life as her garden knife. It was lost in the shuffle at her estate sale. Lost, but not forgotten. Please forgive me for retelling this long true tale of my first traditional hunter- 50 yrs. old, and older. acquired in 1940.
Sut Tatersaul

I edited, and corrected some mistakes, and an error in the year that I acquired the knife. It was 78 years ago. sorry about the erroneous mistakes, and calculations. my old "pea brain" doesn't always work as it should anymore.

I guess I can't leave, well enough alone. Now, I think that I would like to find a leather sheath for this old knife, to make it's pleasure to me complete. As I remember the leather sheath that came with the knife when I was using it, it was a simple, black leather sheath. I don't remember any stampings, designs, or markings on it. Does anyone have any ideas about where I might find, a suitable original type sheath? Thanks. Here are pictures of my new "pride, and Joy".

Sut Tatersaul