Lets show some Old and Rare ones.

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sat Feb 20, 2016 11:22 pm

Great old knife bestgear. Trying to figure out the year of manufacture. Has go be between 1910-1930ish. Anyone know?

ScoutKnives · Post by **ScoutKnives** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 12:11 am

That is a beauty Tom

bestgear wrote:My birthday present to myself..........I love it when they are older than me!

bestgear · Post by **bestgear** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:30 am

Thanks Mike - now I need her brother (The BSA version) to complete the set - know where I can find one?

LongBlade · Post by **LongBlade** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:20 am

Nice knives Joe, Jay and Tom

... I know E Weck is old but wasn't aware they are rare.. anyway I think I have a Weck lobster pattern that I found on the local hunt - will get some pics to post....

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JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:42 pm

Here is a Walden with a hollow spoon blade. Not a very good pick, but I do believe this is a rare one.
Jay

FRJ · Post by **FRJ** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 12:29 am

Nice knives, guys.

Here's an old Thomaston.

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:34 pm

That's a great old Thomaston. Love the big old spear blade. The pen blade looks very narrow. Does not appear to be from blade loss??? Was this the way it was manufactured? Either way it's a great knife.
Jay

Miller Bro's · Post by **Miller Bro's** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:41 pm

Jay & Joe, love the ebony on those two!

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:07 pm

Thank you, I'm a sucker for ebony jacks. Only recently come to appreciate the jigged bone. Started working with ebony on my knives. Boy that stuff is messy!

FRJ · Post by **FRJ** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:27 pm

Thank you Dimitri and Jay.

Jay, I believe both blades have suffered from grinder/stone use, especially the secondary.

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 1:16 am

Either way Joe that knife is historically significant. It has a lot of my favorite things going on. Since we are talking about ebony jacks, here is one of my favorites. Far as I can tell someone used it just enough to scuff up the blades. Otherwise it is in great shape.
Jay

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:50 pm

A Vailsburgh Knife Co New Jersey lobster knife. I've not found much on this company so far. Goins' book lists it as 1875-1900. Any other information greatly appreciated. Thanks

stockman · Post by **stockman** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:10 pm

JAMESC41001 wrote:Here is a Walden with a hollow spoon blade. Not a very good pick, but I do believe this is a rare one.
Jay

Jay, I think the "hollow spoon" blade is a leather punch. Making it in my eyes a very desirable knife.

Harold

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 7:38 pm

Thanx Harold, any info I have found on that style punch is from here at AAPK. I've only seen a few pics one was another walden. Can't recall the other two, but there don't seem to be many examples.

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:26 pm

smiling-knife wrote:A Vailsburgh Knife Co New Jersey lobster knife. I've not found much on this company so far. Goins' book lists it as 1875-1900. Any other information greatly appreciated. Thanks

Pankiewiczs' book "New Jersey Cutlery" does not have much at all about This maker. Says Vailsburg was annexed by Newark in 1905. Levine's 4th edition says a Sheffield cutler named James Crawford invented the lobster pattern in 1820. Yours is a gunstock/orange blossom pattern. I believe that particular pattern was first done by New York Knife Co. Although remington and ulster also made them. Whatever you find out though you'll probably be breaking new ground. There is just no a lot of info for this mark. Great knife. Thanx for posting it.

Another Knife Collector · Sun Feb 28, 2016 8:48 pm

smiling-knife wrote:A Vailsburgh Knife Co New Jersey lobster knife. I've not found much on this company so far. Goins' book lists it as 1875-1900. Any other information greatly appreciated. Thanks

That 's a very pretty knife. I can't offer much about the company, however I know there is a book titled New Jersey Cutlery by Kit Oliynyk I've been interested in but have not seen for sale. Perhaps someone here has it?

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:57 pm

I saw this knife in another thread on aapk. It is an electric. Electric cutlery knives were made in Newark from 1889-1910. The Mark was owned by Friedmann/Lauterjung which was located on fourth and Dickerson st. In the west ward. The Vailsburg section of newark is also the west ward. I think it likely the two knives were made in the F&L factory.

RobesonsRme.com · Post by **RobesonsRme.com** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:01 pm

Actually, Smiling Knife's Vailsburgh lobster is not a gunstock or Orange Blossom like a NYK or Remington, etc., it is a serpentine sleeveboard lobster, as depicted on the bottom of page 259 in LG-IV and a pattern that Levine called "very rare" and "very handsome"; high praise, I should think.

He also stated that Winchester called their example a "curved balloon lobster".

Charlie Noyes

JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 3:41 pm

Thanx Charlie, I'll look closer. Seems like it would take a lot of skill to make a knife like that.

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:02 pm

Thank you for the information posted sofar. Much appreciated.

Beechtree · Post by **Beechtree** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 10:52 pm

Very fine one Smiling Knife, as always!

Charlie, great addition by transcribing this information. Thanks.

James, that is STUNNING! What lovely handles. Hold on to that one

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JAMESC41001 · Post by **JAMESC41001** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 12:12 am

Thanx but not my knife. Got the pick from a differant thread here on aapk. It is very njce though.

Ivoryman · Post by **Ivoryman** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:57 pm

Edward K. Tryon Philadelphia, 1913 Sleeveboard. Great snap, action, finish, bones etc.

peanut740 · Post by **peanut740** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:34 pm

Ivoryman that is a fine little knife.

carrmillus · Post by **carrmillus** » Sat Mar 05, 2016 10:09 pm

Iman, I've got a Camillus from the same time period that looks identical to that one!!..........nice old knife!!!...............

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