shell handled knives

[singin46]

Found this interesting while looking up the Patent numbers. Mirando and Vossler, the 2 inventors!
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=021 ... first+page

[gino]

Here is a few

[petesknives]

Here is another one. Ken

[singin46]

Yes sir, some fine examples there Gino and Pete!

[gino]

Here is one simular to Petes. Mine is a lockblade, I am not sure about the one Pete has pictured.
GC Co. Italy

[singin46]

Certainly cool Gino, I don't own any Switch or any in this style but love lookin at them.

[gino]

Perry, the one I posted looks like a switch but its not. It is just a lockblade (no button to open). I really liked it though and the price and condition were right so I bought it.

[singin46]

Yes, they made a ton of these Gino and I have seen several locks on a card that are really nice. Imperial also made the smaller key chain styles as well. Every handle color variation you could ever imagine.

[edgy46]

Great knives
Here are a pair of majic knives (honest thats what the blister pac said) that I won as a door prize at the Soddy Daisy, Tn. knife show put on by the Soddy Daisy Knife Collectors Assoc. several years ago. We were staying in Townsend, Tn. What a beautiful countryside to drive through. The people were so nice and friendly. Of course most of the people are that way anywhere south of the Ohio river.

PS these are my newest shell handles.

[singin46]

Those are really nice Bill. And to get them for nothin, even better!

[Joe Dirt]

~ABRA CADABRA~, edgy! This look familiar?

I don't think I'm supposed to be showin' the back of this card


........ Joe

[singin46]

[petesknives]

Sweet

[singin46]

Here's a couple more shells I picked up this week. Looks like they're related huh?
The Pen knife is not that unusual but the little Jack has only one blade and it's a Sabre style, never seen one before. Kind of a smokey blue swirl. Imperials both, 1955 to 1988 era.

[edgy46]

Perry
Nice looking pair of shells. Is the reverse side of the blade as flat as it looks in the picture? Knives marked Ideal have flat back blades, with a saber grind on the mark side. (Early tanto grind?)

Joe
You nailed it, right down to the made in Ireland.

[singin46]

Yes, it is flat ground on the back of the Sabre Bill.

[Joe Dirt]

That's a first for me also, singin'!

You've been coming up with some odd ones

........ Joe

[Joe Dirt]

I pilfered a couple this afternoon!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &viewitem=

........ Joe

[singin46]

I saw these the other day Joe and thought the red Serpentine Jack and Cross handles were neat! Is there a possibility that Ideal Co. had anything to do with mine?

[Joe Dirt]

I don't know right off the bat if Ideal was associated with Imperial.
I wouldn't be surprised though.

Imperial was like that vacuum with "the proper amount of suction".
They bought any cutlery company they could get there hands on,
be it through bankruptcy or a straight out purchase.

Imperial was a "mother company".
One of there greatest assets was Schrade!

........ Joe

[edgy46]

Ideal knives are not of the quality of Imperials. The construction is different. Goins' lists Ideal (script) 1924-1986 Providence R.I. The founders were Dominic and Michael Marseli and Phillip Magioni. Ex employees, Relatives, etc ?????????

[gino]

Just picked this up today. I havent seen this hammer fixed blade before.

[edgy46]

Gino
Great lookin Hammer.

[orvet]

Just picked this up today. I havent seen this hammer fixed blade before.

Gino,
Is that a shell handle?

[singin46]

What a great find Gino!