SHOW YOUR NEW (TO YOU) ROBESON

[Open Range-19]

RobesonsRme.com, I sure enjoy your postings. That previous 4-blade is a looker and an education all in one. As a kid working in a small town drug store I well remember the rows of boxed cigars and their wonderful aroma when I'd open the glass oak case to help the Gents. Other than the cedar boxes which there was always a taker for we trashed the empty cigar boxes
Didn't realize times were changing and that any body would want them.

[Open Range-19]

Liking your website.

[Open Range-19]

I want to add most folks of the day stored there odds & ends in tea, candy, cracker or tobacco tins not cardboard cigar boxes.

[RobesonsRme.com]

OR-19;
Thanks for the kind words and please, call me "Charlie".

As far as I know, my website no longer exists. How are you accessing it? You have a Way-Back Machine?

Those are two very nice electricians knives.

Does that pattern interest you?

Charlie

[Open Range-19]

Charlie,
No time machine, searched RobesonsRme.com yesterday and viewed Gallery's I through V of outstanding examples of Robeson knives in addition to straight razors and Terriers. Oddly that page can't be found today. To the second point-yep, to a very limited extent. Found that older better brands of electrician knives are well made though basic, (were) relatively inexpensive and occasionally found in good condition without to much buyer competition.

[doglegg]

Hey Charlie, don't understand how the web works but I just viewed you site as well.

[RobesonsRme.com]

You guys must be lucking up on archived web pages, because the hosting company inadvertently deleted my website.

I'm still paying the fees to retain my domain name and maybe I'll someday be able to recreate it.

The website can be viewed via Internet Archive Way Back Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140801000 ... onsRme.com

Just click on one of the blue dotted dates.

It doesn't display properly, but it's all there if you wish to look.

And here is my circa WWII Robeson TL-29. It never had a bail.

Charlie

[Open Range-19]

Charlie, that rosewood of mine has a poor stamp on the 4th number as if it were stamped 3 originally but corrected to 0. Is it a pattern 222330 or 222030?

Beauty electricians knife you've posted.

Thanks,
Tom

[RobesonsRme.com]

I have a post 1948 electricians knife with the light colored handle. I don't know if these were handled in true rosewood or something else.

The pattern number is 222030.

Charlie

[Open Range-19]

Roger that. Much obliged for pattern number.

[SElliott]

New to me. Robeson 638294. Unusual nickel silver trim from bolster to bolster. Clip, Sheepfoot, and Punch.

[SElliott]

New to me. Robeson 21207 hawkbill pruner.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Nice

Notice there are no handle pins in that first knife. The bolsters and those overlapping liners held the handle slabs in place.

Bernard Levine discussed these knives in two or three successive Whut-Izzit columns in KnifeWorld several years ago.

It was a Robeson patented technique, probably designed by James Lewis.

Problem is, that particular handle material will shrink and eventually pull away from the retaining nickel-silver bolsters and liners.

Here's my example of the technique on a different knife:

Charlie

[SElliott]

Thanks for the education Charlie! A fine example you posted as well! Still showing etching!

[Hak1911]

How’s this....?

[Hak1911]

Numbers
626765..?

[RobesonsRme.com]

That is very nice. I used to have one just like it.

Charlie Noyes

[Hak1911]

The Man said ‘that’s very nice” what else is there ?
Thanks Charlie

[RobesonsRme.com]

I pulled up the photo of my 765 and interestingly, it did not have a shield.

And given the bone jigging, I think it preceded the one HAK1911 posted.

I think I have sold this knife, so I probably shouldn't post its photo.

Its new owner is an AAPK member.

Charlie

[kootenay joe]

Here is a knife i just won on ebay from "George", a 3 5/8 Robeson Shuredge Swell End jack, # 62629. Used and pen blade is down quite a bit but a pretty good knife for $45. I like used knives especially those that have never been 'cleaned' and have good snap and no play like this old Robeson.
Likely a 1930's vintage ? Does worm groove give any indication of date range ?
kj

[edge213]

Great knife KJ.

[doglegg]

Good score Roland.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Very nice, Roland.

George is a good seller. I trust him. Met him in 1997 in Waterbury.

Tom Kalcevic says 1911 - 1921 for that particular tang stamp.

I do tend to use his dates. He did the research. They may not be totally accurate. I mean, who knows, really?

So called "Worm Grooved " bone is pre-WWII and probably pre-1940.

Charlie

[kootenay joe]

Thanks for the posts. And thank you Charlie for the info on dates and the worm groove bone. I am surprised that more collectors did not bid for this one. Did it fly under their radar ? or are most holding out for an unused example ? Perhaps i am mistaken but i think $45 for this knife is rather low. Robeson, Swell End, and bone are all desirable.
kj

[RobesonsRme.com]

If it was mine, I would not offer it for $45.00.

Charlie