Traditonal Hunters - Fifty years old (1965) and older…...

[dcgm4]

Fantastic knives, btrwtr!

[carrmillus]

I always enjoy looking in on this post. Some fantastic knives shown here. Mason that Hunter looks like it was just taken out of the showroom case. Cato the Miller Bros. is awesome.

Here are a few I have recently picked up.

First pic,
Case Tested Green Bone high pull 6265 with no shield, iron bolsters and liners.
Phoenix Knife Co. with double pulls. A previous owner has installed a steel pin where a lanyard ring was in the tail end bolster.
Cattaraugus King of the Woods liner lock

Second pic,
Northfield Knife Co. lockback
F.A. Koch Co. with unusual lock at tail end of frame
4 line Camillus with match striker pull

Third pic,
American Shear and Knife Co lockback
Ulster Dwight Devine and Sons English jack
Schrade Cut lockback with fancy threaded bolsters

The remaining pictures are of a Marbles Woodcraft first model knife variation that I have never seen before. I have owned dozens of old Woodcrafts including a number of the "PAT. PEND." knives. This is the first PAT. PEND. model I have ever seen that did not have the XXXXX type cross hatching on the back of the blade. This knife has the later parallel llllllll type cross hatching that is seen on the later made knives. I think it must be a transition knife. The knife has a 1/2" barrel nut and round pommel that is typical of early Woodcraft models. Maybe others have seen this but it is a new variation to me.

....love that old Camillus!!!!......... ........

[FRJ]

btrwtr, what a pleasure it is to look at those old knives.

[LongBlade]

Mason - that Puma has one sweet blade - almost like a machete

Awesome collection of Hunters Wayne ... Interesting that the 2 CT knives are lockbacks as well which I really like on a Hunter (the Miller Bros I posted had one as well).... Also cool design with the Koch Hunter with the lockback button way back on the rear... How long is that American Shear and Knife, Ulster Dwight Devine and Schrade with blades closed?? Curious as they are not coke bottle handle designs which seems to be the most common handle seen on many of the old Hunters (and with the coke bottle handles they all seem to be 5 & 3/8" for the most part)....

Maybe its my imagination but with the Case Hunters I have seen - it always appears to me that the skinning blade (I assume it is a skinning blade) always looks longer than the clip blade... is that true or just my perception?? One of the few I have seen in person no doubt had a longer skinning blade but didn't know if that was that knife and previous sharpening or just how they were made...

[btrwtr]

Mason - that Puma has one sweet blade - almost like a machete

Awesome collection of Hunters Wayne ... Interesting that the 2 CT knives are lockbacks as well which I really like on a Hunter (the Miller Bros I posted had one as well).... Also cool design with the Koch Hunter with the lockback button way back on the rear... How long is that American Shear and Knife, Ulster Dwight Devine and Schrade with blades closed?? Curious as they are not coke bottle handle designs which seems to be the most common handle seen on many of the old Hunters (and with the coke bottle handles they all seem to be 5 & 3/8" for the most part)....

Maybe its my imagination but with the Case Hunters I have seen - it always appears to me that the skinning blade (I assume it is a skinning blade) always looks longer than the clip blade... is that true or just my perception?? One of the few I have seen in person no doubt had a longer skinning blade but didn't know if that was that knife and previous sharpening or just how they were made...

The American Shear and Schrade Cut are both 4 1/2" closed, the Ulster 4 5/8".

I think it might be a coin toss as to which blade in the 6265 SAB Case knives is normally longer when new.

Wayne

[Miller Bro's]

Another one with horn handles, no damage, unusual bolster.

[LongBlade]

Very cool Hunter MB ... A most unique design for sure.... I can't find anything on Borcosk as a maker in Levines or Goins... Where was this maker? No doubt looks old and must be a rare stamp for sure!!

[Miller Bro's]

Thanks, I am still researching it to find out more info about where and when it was made.

[tendots]

The knife is prolly Austrian or Hungarian.

[thegreedygulo]

Very nice knives everyone! Thanks for posting. Here's four H. Boker & Co.'s Improved Cutlery folding hunters that I've posted before, but thought I would repost here.

Cato: That Miller Brothers with the secondary spear blade is an EXCEPTIONAL find. Sure looks like a handfull.

[peanut740]

Nice group Roger.

[peanut740]

Here's a couple that I've posted elsewhere.An Excelsior and a 2 blade Maher & Grosh,

[thegreedygulo]

Roger: In my opinion, they just don't get much better than those two.

[peanut740]

Thanks Roger,knives like these are few and far between.

[knife7knut]

I posted this one in another thread but might as well post it here. A friend of mine brought this to show me at one of our breakfast get-togethers awhile back. It belonged to his dad and he came across it in a tackle box his dad had owned. He remembered his dad keeping it in the tackle box but doesn't recall him ever using it. Knowing I collected knives he wanted to get an idea if it was valuable or not.
He about fell out of his chair when I told him what it might be worth. My estimate;based on it's condition(some minor pitting on a full blade;one minor crack on the scale at the center rivet)was in the range of three to four hundred dollars. Was I in the ball park judging from these pics?
I told him if he ever decided to sell it I would like to get first crack at it.He thinks he's going to keep it around for awhile. I would too.

[btrwtr]

Here are some I've posted elsewhere on the forum. I think they belong here as well.

The first pics of the Case Knife/Ax in the Shipley sheath are a first time post.

Wayne

[bighomer]

Wayne them thar knives have somemore character, I love'em.

[Colonel26]

I need to dig all mine out and take pics, but I've been a might lazy. But I did pick these two up yesterday at the Cave City Gun and Knife Show.

First is a pre 1930 Aerial Cutlery Company large Coke Bottle Hunter. Whatever the original handle material was it's been replaced by this ugly but functional wood. This one will probably get rehandled.

Second is a Schmidt and Ziegler single blade hunter with the running bull tang stamp. It too is saber ground with worm groove bone scales.

[djknife13]

Here are some I've posted elsewhere on the forum. I think they belong here as well.

The first pics of the Case Knife/Ax in the Shipley sheath are a first time post.

Wayne

That's a beautiful serious collection. Very impressive. Thanks for showing them. ___Dave

[LongBlade]

I have to say in the last 24 hours there has been quite an awesome collection of Hunters shown on the last 2 pages .... Looking back from the beginning - if all the Hunters in this whole thread were on display at one time I would no doubt pay admission to see them !! Thanks for sharing them!!

[Dinadan]

This has been a good topic. I have not posted on it because I do not have any relevant knives. But it is great reading!

[Jdub]

Here is a few of mine!!!

[wlf]

I wish these last few weeks I had not been so preoccupied.(family,remember my son in prayer)

Lee ,thank you and all for showing these pieces of cutlery history,this is quite a thread. Lots of AAPK info in here.

Here's a Remington 1128, I didn't know about the pin on the pile side.I had Sargent and another look at it,said it was ok.

[LongBlade]

Jdub - what a wonderful set of Case Hunters in fact awesome looking laying side by side...

Lyle - That is one great looking Remington Bullet Hunter and with wood too... SWEET!! I have never seen a bullet knife with cocobola (?) wood and I for one admire wood handle knives among the many handle scales that interest me ... That one certainly looks to be in fantastic shape as well.... wonder if it was from the earlier years of Remington...

Thanks again!!!

[RalphAlsip]

Lyle, very nice R1128! I compared the pin placement of your R1128 to my R1123 and the placement is identical. The shape of the pin head on the pile side is unusual (rectangular), but the knife looks very legit to me. I have been watching for a R1128 and yours is the best example I have seen. The blades have been pretty worn on most of the examples I have seen. The one I did see with good blades had a name engraved on the bullet shield.