imperial barlow

[old timer1990]

a good friend of my was give this knives its a imperial barlow with mark twain on it

[testcase]

I had one of those back in the sixties I think... Don't recall what became of it... Probably broke it playing Daniel Boone and throwing it at a tree!

[Froggyedge]

"Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations."
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[vikingdog]

I like Barlows, a classic pattern. Great quote Froggy! Makes me want to read Mark Twain.

[Froggyedge]

Yes, Twain made some very colorful descriptions of the life by the Mississippi river!
And the Barlow works just as well today as back in Huck Finn's days, some 160-170 years ago!

All the stores was along one street. They had white domestic awnings in front, and the country-people hitched their horses to the awning-posts. There was empty dry-goods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching - a mighty ornery lot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

With a Barlow in his pocket?