Fly Knife

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Fly Knife

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I’m always on the lookout for old paper showing knives and ones showing autos are few and far between. Very happy to have found this one😁 R C Kruschke’s patented Fly knife. Funny thing is the date is Oct 6, same as my birthday of course years earlier though!
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galvanic1882 wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:35 pm I’m always on the lookout for old paper showing knives and ones showing autos are few and far between. Very happy to have found this one😁 R C Kruschke’s patented Fly knife. Funny thing is the date is Oct 6, same as my birthday of course years earlier though!
Priceless. You deserve it. Nice paper!!
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galvanic1882 wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:35 pm I’m always on the lookout for old paper showing knives and ones showing autos are few and far between.
Nice paper Mike ::tu::

Do you have the knife?

I would like to see one ::nod::
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Thanks guys and no I don’t have one. Several are shown on FB though
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I have one in rough shape. I think these were a contract knife made by Voss Cutlery.

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Voss was a contractor/importer in the US, I believe.
A likely maker for this pattern was F. Herder. Others may have made them too. I do know Herder was a manufacturer who made this pattern.
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galvanic1882 wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:35 pm I’m always on the lookout for old paper showing knives and ones showing autos are few and far between. Very happy to have found this one😁 R C Kruschke’s patented Fly knife. Funny thing is the date is Oct 6, same as my birthday of course years earlier though!
Here is a book my friends and I wrote. There is a good write up about these in our German chapter.
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Few more old ads. I found a 16” model in South America. And I found a 12” Belgian made version too
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Here’s one with the etch!
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sgreen3827 wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 3:02 am Here’s one with the etch!
Wow! It's a beauty! ::tu::
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