Vintage Acid Etched & Stamped Blades

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Mason wrote:Neat thread M.B. with a nice variety of interesting etches and stamps.

Thanks, what does the rest of your knife look like?
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Miller Bro`s wrote:
Mason wrote:Neat thread M.B. with a nice variety of interesting etches and stamps.

Thanks, what does the rest of your knife look like?
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Miller Bro`s wrote:Here is another fine etch.............
Wow, great knife with beautiful etch!!!
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Thanks for the picture, that is an outstanding example ::tu::
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MB, cool font on that National. Yet another brand I had not heard of before. Great thread.
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Thanks Mike ::tu::

Here is a nice Camillus etch :wink:

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These are not old but then I don't have much that's old.
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Miller Bro`s wrote:Here is another fine etch.............
That National is a beauty. Would that be called a reverse etch?
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Mark,

Yes, it is a reverse etch. Check out page 1 for some nice old Boker`s the greedygulo has posted ::nod::

Most all the reverse etches I have seen were on German made knives :wink:
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Miller Bro`s wrote:Thanks Mike ::tu::

Here is a nice Camillus etch :wink:

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Over a great looking knife. Camillus made some outstanding knives.
Only a very few are ad good as that one.
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stockman wrote:Camillus made some outstanding knives.
Only a very few are ad good as that one.
They sure did ::nod::
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Heinr. Boker & Co Baumwerk - Solingen Germany - Alemania.
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Here is an old H&B MFG. CO. 1853-1916 NEW BRITAIN CONN Cattle knife.
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NICE cattle knife Beechtree!! Looks like a handful.
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Thanks. It is greedy ::nod:: I should weigh it.
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A thread full of eye candy!

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IXL etch.
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Deeply stamped blade.
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I''ve been sitting here playing with my tablet, watching some football, listening to it rain, and taking a few pictures of some old knives to see how they turn out.First is a New York Knife jack knife.
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Well it worked, sure not a work of art, but.....I''ll try another.Maher & Grosh, hard to see etch, G.A.R. with crossed flags.
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Another, stag Kabar hobo.l haven't seen another etched hobo.I'm sure there out there.
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Great looking knives!!!!
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Another.Maher &Grosh, big ass 2 blade, flat bottom, folding hunter.Full 5 1/2 " closed, unsharpened.Etched Maher & Grosh, razor steel.
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Thanks Mike.
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I'm on a roll........still raining.Keen Kutter, model stamped 1920.
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