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I want to show my large Robeson easy opener. 5” long closed. 9” long open. A little bit too large to carry in your pocket comfortably. Beautiful worm groove bone. Great snap.

Beautiful rare knife. Thanks for posting here.

They made that pattern as a Terrier, too, so the knives probably date 1910 - 1916 or so.

I have this big five inch Terrier. It has the same pattern number as knives such as yours, but different blades. I'm quite sure these blades are original to the knife.

Charlie

Nice Charlie, always enjoy looking at your Terriers!! That is one nice knife

That hawkbill blade sure surprised me. I don’t think I have ever seen that combination before.

knife-nut wrote:I want to show my large Robeson easy opener. 5” long closed. 9” long open. A little bit too large to carry in your pocket comfortably. Beautiful worm groove bone. Great snap.

That's a good looking knife, very impressive

I really Dig Those ,I Didn't know how rare they were thou. To Very Fine examples .Thx 4 Posting __ Joe

When there used to be multiple large, well attended NKCA Knife Shows, you might see a knife like the OP knife every once in a while, but they were always just about used up. The long pen blade was especially prone to being way down.

Joe Seale wrote an article for KnifeWorld Magazine years ago about one such knife that was in fantastic condition. It had a leather thong through the hole. I have no idea what happened to that knife.

The Terrier I posted came out of Mr. Seale's collection after he passed away. Tony Foster bought it and sold it to the man from whom I obtained it.

It is the only such knife I have ever seen, Terrier or Robeson.

Charlie

Very Interesting story there Charlie I like provenance ,The Sacrificial pen blade makes perfect cents on such a Large design . Examples with a Leather Punch Instead of the pen would no doubt have faired better I think there are the ultimate pocket Knife , Perhaps they were part of the display sample trend of the early period ,Seeing How They sure do get Noticed when they present them selfs _-K.C.

Very nice all those knives. Big fan of Robeson’s myself. Charlie, Any idea how many they would have made of that one w/ the hawksbill? Love that set up, you don’t see a hawksbill and a smaller blade together very often. Very nice set up.
Mark

I'm completely clueless on that question. They didn't even change the pattern number on the hawkbill/sheepsfoot knife. Ordinarily, such a departure from an established pattern would have warranted a change of number or an added numerical suffix, although that practice might not have started until later. We are talking about knives made in the mid-teens.

The one I have is the only one I've ever seen or heard about.

Charlie