Knives Made Before The Year 1960

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Nice ones Dimitri! Here is a pruner stamped Cast Steel on the blade and John Copley on the tang.The handles are the thickest I've ever seen on a pruner and I think this is the one with a tapered backspring.I'll have to dig it out and check.
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Thanks Ray!

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Nice knives, MB and K7K. I love to see the really old ones. There should be a thread titled Knives Made Before the Year 1900.
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danno50 wrote:Nice knives, MB and K7K. I love to see the really old ones. There should be a thread titled Knives Made Before the Year 1900.
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TY sir.Why don't you start one? I'll contribute a few.
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knife7knut wrote:
danno50 wrote:Nice knives, MB and K7K. I love to see the really old ones. There should be a thread titled Knives Made Before the Year 1900.
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TY sir.Why don't you start one? I'll contribute a few.
I would do that Ray, but I don't know if it is proper etiquette to start a thread when I have nothing to post in it?
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"Have Any Knives Made Before 1900?"
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RobesonsRme.com wrote:"Have Any Knives Made Before 1900?"
Lets start with this one.
Wade Wingfield and Robatham Sheffield 1825-1852 per John Goins 1825-1898 per LGIV.
Let's see em guys I know you gottem.
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Actually, I meant that as a title for a new thread.
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edgy46, nice old pearl pen knife, thanks for posting it.
RobesonsRme.com wrote:"Have Any Knives Made Before 1900?"
Remembered I had one knife which fit the criteria and the thread has been started.
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Well, thanks to David Anthony I finally have a Jess Crouch knife to go with my Chris Wolf! ::woot:: ::groove::

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I love them all,especially those Warncliff's ::tu::
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An early Imperial.
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SWEET knife that! ^
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Thank you Dave :wink:
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Here's a nice little Vignos pen knife.
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Interestin' dc..... pearl and abalone???
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One half is definitely abalone. The other half I'm not 100% sure about. It could be pearl, but it looks more like white abalone to me.
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I haven't heard of white abalone but if it is pearl it has a lot of fire to it and some very strange patination.It doesn't look like paua shell either.Nice knife nevertheless.
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Looks like MOP to me, some of the outer part has that yellowish color to it.

Rub it on your tooth, if it is gritty it is definitely shell.
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Here is an old warrior, Dunham Carrigan & Hayden San Francisco harware wholesale brand. (1895-1920).
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Two Case XX of mine
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I'm pretty proud to have this Baldwin.

I got these two British Army Knives in a trade with Iron Hoarder.
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Big fan of the old knives also, part of the fun for me is the hunt involved in finding them in decent condition. Here are a few of mine, a Chris Wolf jack, Schatt&Morgan pruner, pre WW2 Camillus Engineers knife and a Camillus pruner.
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Great knives fellas.

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