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Here's my first three, all new arrivals. 2 Case XX and one thoroughly cleaned Tested. The thick worm-grooved green bone on the Tested really got my attention. Do you think the one XX is green bone as well? Thanks for your opinions, greatly appreciated.
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Here is a fairly complex pruning tool I ran across this past week in an antique store; tang marked HOFFRITZ NY Made in Germany. Don't know anything else about it, but I would guess WWI to WWII era.
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Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
Got this Electric coming in the mail!!! Can't wait to get my hands on it. I have known about this knife for 10 years and finally will be getting it for my collection.
Thanks for the comments on the Electric and the bolsters are brass. Here is another item that I picked up. First time I ever saw a set like this. Holley Mfg Co Lakeville Conn. The box alone is a rare one but to find the 3 knives inside was WOW . Only the Pruner is used the other 2 have stains but seem to not have been used at all.
RobesonsRme.com wrote:
Then one time, I saw him at a knife show and he snapped his fingers when he saw me and said, "Gosh, darn it!" I asked what the problem was. He told me about a mint, two blade, blade etched loom fixer knife from Robeson that he had just sent to a loom fixer collector in the Carolinas. It was etched with some Carolina mill's name on the master blade.
Charlie Noyes
Are Loom Fixers considered Pruning and Horticultural Knives or did you just include that little story because of the Robenson connection?
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That is sweet Mike, three knives in the box!!!
It doesn't get much sweeter!
Here is a budding knife I found at a flea market.
Goins doesn't say much about Hugo Koller aside from 1861 to present and that they are in Solingen.
It is the only budding knife I have seen with advertising on the handle. It says COMPO on the handle.
I was able to find COMPO on the web. They are an international company that produces organic-chemical brand name products for the home and garden. I believe they started in Germany. Only fitting then that they have a German ad knife.
Wow these area all amazing knives, the pruner style is one of my favorites. Your collection It632ret if fantastic! Those are some great oldies. And that Holley, Miller Bro's, is a special one to say the least. And I agree with Knife7knut, that stag on your Gilles, galvanic 1882 is perfect. Also, that little Robeson budding knife of yours RobesonsRme.com is sure swell. Ahh but one more comment, that Holley Box with the three knives in it galvanic1882….WOW!
Here is an old one, it is an M over C stamp, standing for Meriden Cutlery Co. 1878-1883 I think. If any one could corroborate/reject this hypothesis I would be very interested.
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"A tool is but an extension of a man's hand." -Henry Ward Beecher
Here's a Saynor Cooke Ridal I came across in a pawn shop in Arkansas. If i've put the info together correctly, it dates somewhere between 1881 and the mid 1890's. Genuine ivory handles and folding spud.
Very nice love that etch.......
