Horticultural Knives, Lets see them!

[knife7knut]

WOW!!!Some really beautiful knives in this post;especially the stags.Here are a few from my collection;a lot of them have seen a good bit of use.

First up is an unmarked(except for Sheffield England)knife identical to the I*XL posted earlier.
Second is a Camillus etched with the Channelock logo.
Third is a smaller knife marked,"G.H. Exhibition".
Fourth is a George Woodhead probably from the 1860's.
Fifth is a Hoffritz with a folding pair of shears.The latch for the shears is not a very good design and allows the blade to open by itself.
Sixth is a John Copley with the thickest set of ebony scales I've ever seen on a folding knife.
Seventh and eighth are a pair of John Russell Green River Works pruners.
Ninth is one marked "S.Coop" and has a HUGE blade and horn scales.
Last is one marked Samuel Robinson Sheffield with a fouled anchor.

[knife7knut]

Moving along we have:

First an Ulster Dwight Devine in near unused condition.
Second is another Ulster but without the D.D. marking.
Third is an unmarked one that appears to be made out of some type of animal horn(one piece)with a metal ferrule that also acts as a blade stop.
Fourth is one of my favorite knives:an unmarked stag scaled mini pruner with squared tang stop.Maybe early English.I've never seen another this size.
Fifth is a modern day Valor pruner with thumb stud and liner lock.
Last is the first pruner and first stag scaled knife I ever bought:Stamped,"SAYNOR" on the blade and,"W.Drummond & Sons" on the tang.Very old I believe as it has one piece bolsters and liners and the backspring is forged in a curve at the rear rather than being blanked.
Hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

[ea42]

K7K, that's SOME collection!

Fran, is that a liner lock on the Camillus? That one's in incredible condition

Charlie, awesome as usual, more like a work of art than a tool. Even the shape of the blade seems perfect.

Eric

[BigDonDon]

Hey Ralph,

I thought you were in the Citrus business. That photo of grafting looks like a peach tree to me. Have you diversified?

Don F.

[BigDonDon]

Hey Ralph,

Is that Case/Tony Bose 1309 the one I told you about? Any bites on selling your total collection?

Don F.

[Sauconian]

Fran, is that a liner lock on the Camillus? That one's in incredible condition


Eric

Yes it is Eric. When I got it, way back when , I just thought it was a new knife. Then I got BOOKS, and found it is what Goins calls the ' short line ' mark,
c '46 - 50.

Fran

Hey Ralph,

I thought you were in the Citrus business. That photo of grafting looks like a peach tree to me. Have you diversified?

Don F.

Boy, Don. Have you been outta' touch ? Ralph is the Florida Peach King now !

Fran

[Miller Bro's]

Here are a couple, both have very strong snap!

The Herder is etched on the blade "Don Carlos".

Fran,
Nice ones, have any with bone/stag handles?





M.B.

[knife7knut]

Here are a couple, both have very strong snap!

The Herder is etched on the blade "Don Carlos", Who is that? ::





M.B.

I believe that is a brand of wine.Seems to me I have a knife around with that name on it as well.

[kman101256]

How about this'un?

Marty

[sunburst]

Hey Ralph,

Is that Case/Tony Bose 1309 the one I told you about? Any bites on selling your total collection?

Don F.

Man you guys amaze me with these incredible knives, I would have loved to experience the era when these blades came off the factory line and see the people who put them in their pockets and the many things they were used for.

Don

I believe it is the one you were so kind enough to tell me about. I liked it so much I had to put one in my pocket at all times. No I have not sold my Tony Bose/Case collection yet, I would like to but the economy and knife market are not favorable to someone selling these days. And yes that is a peach tree in the picture in the process of being grafted with the hort knife. I still manage lots of citrus acres but have diverisfied into Florida Peaches as well. Fran is being too kind in his description, its more like I have become a slave to peaches as well as citrus...

Sunburst

[BigDonDon]

Ralph,

I just ordered the Five 2009 Case/Tony Bose Collaboration Norfolks. That way I'll keep my collection 100% intact. I guess financial times are tough all over. We have several more vacancies in our rentals than usual. I even reduced a rent $100/month last week. Fortunately there is still enough income to buy a few knives!

Don F.

[Miller Bro's]

Here is a unique design for a pruning knife.

An Ibberson Horticultural knife, folding pruning blade and a folding shears.

The folding shears are sharp and slices thru branches with ease, I tried them!

The knife has 4 backsprings, birdseye rivets, wood handles and measures about 1" wide.

Nice knife to carry if your in the horticultural business.


M.B.

[Miller Bro's]

This is the latest addition.

A huge 8 1/4" closed, pruning knife. Ratchet lock, ebony slab handles.

It is either French or Spanish, hard to read the tang stamp.

I don`t know how you could possibly fit this in your pocket

[BigDonDon]

This thread has taken on a life of it's own. First post almost a year ago.
That is the strangest knife I ever saw. Anyone wants a Tony Bose/Case Pruner I've got one for sale on my AAPK store, Big Don's Pocket Knives. Very nice condition, like new!

Don Franklin

[tjmurphy]

This is an I-XL George Wostenholm, Sheffield England, solid brass handles

[orvet]

Wow, I forgot this thread was around,
Great to reread. Here are a few from my collection.

First is a Schrade Walden 196.

Now three brands of pruners, Ulster, Kingston and Dunlap.
Do you think they may share some DNA?

This is an old Hawkbill pruner from Walden Knife Co (c. 1874-1923).

This is one of the only hawkbills I have seen from Western.
I'm not sure but the handles appear to be Bakelite.

Here are two Schrade Cut Co that have seen their fair share of work and then some!

Here is a Robeson.

A Kutmaster with a nice full blade.

One from Landers, Frey & Clark (LF&C).

Scrolling through these these are really not "pretty" knives, nor were they even meant to be, with the possible of the Schrade Walden flower knife, these knives were built to work and work hard. Indeed from the evidence many of these knives have worked very hard indeed, but somehow to me there is beauty in well built knives that have lived long and hard and are still ready should they be called upon again.

Dale

[BigDonDon]

Wow, Dale, you have a bunch of hawkbills. You've been going to too many knife shows or do you find them in garage sales?

Don Franklin

[orvet]

Here are a few more of mine.

Another Dunlap with a nice full blade-

A Boker USA-

A well used Carl Schlieper-

A reasonably full Remington-

A Challenge Cut Co that has done it's fair share of cutting-

A Queen City-

Hibbert,Spencer & Bartlett (H S & B)-

Of course there a Camillus #1. I have one hanging over my work bench that I use to prune roses and grapes as well as cutting rhubarb. Sharp and highly functional.

I almost forgot this old I*XL that has seen finer days-

These are part of my collection of hawkbill pruners. I have other hawkbills that don't really don't belong here as they were designed to be used in electrical work. A much smaller type hawkbill blade is found often as an alternate to the spear blade in TL-29 type electricians knives. Sometimes they are added in as a third blade in a TL-29 frame and sold to the Electrician Trade. The use of the hawkbill blade is to cut the heavy cover of electrical cables to get to the wires inside without the danger of cutting the the insulation on the wires as is more likely to happen with a clip or spear blade.

Don,
The answer is that I find them everywhere and sometimes they find me!

Dale

[Miller Bro's]

Dale,

Nice collection

What is the handle material made out of on that Wolstenholm?

Looks like composition, or is it bone?

[upnorth]

Welcome back old thread!! These interesting old threads might get lost in the abyss without Dimitri!! Nice knives to bring 'er back with MB!!!

Quite an extensive collection, Dale! That last one looks like it is handled in pressed horn or pressed stag??

We haven't seen a spud for a while, so let me post one.
Here is an exquisite Budding-Grafting knife. Only 3 parts, plus pins, it is well detailed, at 3 3/4" long.
One piece bone handle+spud, usual great jigging and dyeing from NKY. Nice snap and a sunk joint.
Just a blade, spring and handle!!

[sunburst]

Charley that's a sweet knife, you gotta love the beautiful jigging on that bone....Thanks for sharing...

RC

[Miller Bro's]

Charlie,

That is one nice knife!
I have one or two in jigged bone, they are not easy to find.

Most of these are Ivory or smooth bone handled.

I have quite a few Ivory examples.
Here are a couple interesting ones.

The first one is the longest one I have ever owned. It is 5" closed, most of these were around 3-3 1/2" closed. It has a nice long piece of Ivory, and unusual for these very thin brass liners! The liners are slightly thicker than aluminum foil

Another thing the tang is stamped "Warren Museum Boston" Never seen this stamp on any other knife.

The second knife is a pre 1891 G. Wostenholm. The blade is what you would usually see on these knives, I don`t believe it was reshaped.

[upnorth]

Nice ones, Dimitri! I can see that rounded spear blade doing a good job. If you are trying to minimize your cut, you could just "roll" it into the bark. Do either of them have liners?

[Miller Bro's]

Do either of them have liners?

Charlie,
The longer one has thin brass liners, which is unusual for these type knives.

[upnorth]

Do either of them have liners?

Charlie,
The longer one has thin brass liners, which is unusual for these type knives.

Fitting liners in must be difficult. Also difficult is fitting the spring into a saw-cut recess! What wizards they were!!