Boys Knives Through the Years

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Some awesome knives being shown in this thread! ::tu:: Here's a stag-handled one made by A. F. Bannister & Co. It's one of the smaller boy's knives at 2 5/8" closed.
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Great old Boys Knife Dave - ::tu:: ::tu:: ... nice score - all looks good on the knife but the bone is really sweet on a knife that small!!!
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Top R1063
Middle R1073
Bottom R1071
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Beautiful knives, Dave and Keith. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Keith you are showing some great knives!!
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Dave I love that little NJ knife man the stag is great!!
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Keith - Nice group of Remington Boys Knives ::tu:: ::tu:: !!! You are on roll my friend - to echo Mike you are showing some great knives!!
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Thanks guys. I appreciate it.
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espn77: Very much drawn to the spear point on your 1063. ::tu::
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Thanks QS, if only the pen blade didn't set a tick high. I'm just happy to have one with an etch.
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I wanted to share this Remington Boys Knife R23CH which Keith motivated me to look for based on his knives but needed to find the right photo - the knife was in the Knife Magazine article but I couldn't use the same exact photo as I think they now have it copyrighted ::shrug:: .. just don't know but didn't want to chance any issues so a slightly different photo)... anyway rolling off Keith's beautiful examples this is my best Remington that I own for sure (and btw both have full blades but don't have a photo of the pen blade at the moment)... lucky to have it and thanks to Steve Pfeiffer (knifeaholic) in finding it ::tu:: ....
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WOW!!!!!! THAT'S THE BEST ANYONE HAS. Oh the envy. ::facepalm::
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That's a real beauty there, Lee, and a nice accessory.
All you guys are showing great looking knives on this page. I wouldn't give them to any boy. ::facepalm::
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Thanks Keith and Joe ::tu:: ::tu:: .... Keith - I knew this may get your blood pressure up :lol: but knew you would like seeing it as the Remington "guy" :) ...
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Thanks, guys! :D

Awesome Remingtons, espn77 and Lee. ::tu::
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Just picked up another Grahamsville to go with the one I had! Poor sharpening job on it.
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Beautiful old knives you have there, Mike.
I have not seen that stamp before, but it's just like you to come up with the unusual stamp we can all learn from.

Here's a little A. W. Wadsworth & Son that I overlooked.
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Here’s a little Millers brothers. Anyone got an idea on the age?
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Attica Knife Co., Goins book says best guess, g. 1875-1900 hard to find stamp. Look quite like the Russell made "BOY OF AMERICA" knives.
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Btrwtr that is interesting. Im gonna dig my Russell out. I know they don't have tang stamps and were made by J Wards.
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Thanks Joe! That Attica is a Cattaraugus product one of their secondary marked knives along with Valley Falls. Still love that one. Here is another one with a chain.
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Joe - Classic old nice knife with great wood, bail and all ::tu::

Kerry - Nice old Miller Bros ::tu:: .. hard to date that cutlery by the stamp but I would say +/- 1900 ... Goins notes for that specific Miller Bros stamp 1863-1926 but 1863-1872 they were in Yaleville & Wallingford CT so given Meriden is on the stamp I would say 1872-1926...

Wayne - Interesting for sure... The Attica no doubt has great similarities to the Russell - I have the latter. I actually never knew Attica made those as well (or was there a connection between them as Russell did a fair amount of contract work ::shrug:: ) - pretty cool either way!!

Mike - That M&G is sweet - whole knife and etch is superb!!
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Thanks Longblade. Some great old knives showing up in this thread.
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Here's a few.
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All very nice Dimitri ::tu::
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