Another MoP Smoker's Knife

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:20 pm

My latest addition. I find I can resit these multi-blades. Hopefully, K7K will drop by and provide and opinion on the sliding metal bit at the end of the handle. I had no idea what it was for but it looks similar to one he posted with a fold-out tamper disk. Unfortunately it is no longer there. Still a nice little knife. The maker was Joseph Westby and it has the name of a Sheffield steel company on the blade. Perhaps a promotional item or a gift to an employee.

s-k

Hukk · Post by **Hukk** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:28 pm

I'm enjoying these textured pearl knives. I keep thinking one of these days, maybe I'll do some simple texturing on MOP.

Gunsmoke47 · Post by **Gunsmoke47** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:35 pm

s-k, you have the ability to come up with some of the coolest knives (and other things) that I have seen. Love your posts.

Kelley

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:07 pm

Thank-you very much Hukk and Kelley.

s-k

knife7knut · Post by **knife7knut** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:01 pm

Great little find S-K! I believe you are correct in assuming that there was once a disc attached to the projection and did indeed slide and pivot.I bet you could effect a fairly easy repair by utilizing a tamper from a junk(or inexpensive) smoker's knife and retrofit it to the tab.If you need some closeups of the one I have let me know and I'll e-mail them to you for reference.

Here's a pic of an inexpensive smoker's knife I purchased on e-Bay a couple weeks ago.The unusual part is the two blades:one is sheepfoot and the other a rounded bowl scraper.Made by Colonial.Just unusual enough to pique my interest.

galvanic1882 · Post by **galvanic1882** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:35 pm

Great looking knife s-k. I have a few old English knives and need to take good pictures of them and will post them. This is a 5 blade that I picked up awhile ago. It is marked B.B. Wells Strand.

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:24 pm

Thanks very much for the information K7K

. I'll leave this one as is and continue looking for one with the tamper in tact.

Beautiful knife Galvanic

The Strand is a famous street in London in the west end just off of Trafalgar Square. It must be the name of a merchant located there at one time.

s-k

Ringmaster · Post by **Ringmaster** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:34 pm

Great knives, fellers !

I'm wondering what that little oddball blade is for, in the Wells knife ?

MM, Orvet, et.al., are ya'll taking notes ? Those milled springs are really detailed, aren't they ?

galvanic1882 · Post by **galvanic1882** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:35 pm

The little funny balde is a 2 sided nail file with a cuticle knife, I think/

Glad you like the filework.

galvanic1882 · Post by **galvanic1882** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:52 pm

Here are a few more knives with their purses made in England and one which is a rare Maine Cutlery Co, which was made in Germany and the mark belonged to JBF Champlin at one time. More knives and their purses are posted in the forum purses.

The Owl Cutlery Co knife has a stanhope in the pivot, the picture is of a scantily clad miadem.

Hope you like them

Ringmaster · Post by **Ringmaster** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:17 pm

Marvelous, Wonderful, Great, Supercalifragilistic ! ( I like 'em )

It's a toss-up, between the Drakeford and the Wardmorton, but the twisted-wire inlay in the Maine really makes it shine, too. Some real winners, Mike.

All the knives in this thread are all real good examples of the cutler's art.

Thanks,
JR

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:22 pm

Fantastic knives Galvanic.

They look to be in excellent condition too. The Drakeford has an unusual combination of blades. One would normally expect to see a corkscrew along with the foil/wire cutter. Thanks

s-k

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:25 pm

great knives mike!

galvanic1882 · Post by **galvanic1882** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:27 pm

Thanks, I am glad you like them. The sheffield stuff is really something to behold thats for sure. Wish I could afford more of them.

TM · Post by TM » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:34 pm

Here are some Rodgers pipe tools I picked up a couple of days ago. I saw them behind the counter in a tobacco shop. I'm not sure if these are still produced or not - the display certainly looked dated and I have never seen them any place else. I was pleased to see that they were stamped Sheffield and made in England.

galvanic1882 · Post by **galvanic1882** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:41 pm

Nice pickup. I always say you need to keep your eyes open you never know where you are going to see a knife that might be of interest. Another good place to look is with sewing items in antique shops.

Keep hunting

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:04 am

TM wrote:Here are some Rodgers pipe tools I picked up a couple of days ago. I saw them behind the counter in a tobacco shop. I'm not sure if these are still produced or not - the display certainly looked dated and I have never seen them any place else. I was pleased to see that they were stamped Sheffield and made in England.

TM,
I believe that your Rodgers pipe knives were made in the 1970s or 1980s. IIRC, I sold some of them when I was running the smoke shops in the 1980s.

Dale

TM · Post by TM » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:53 pm

Hello orvet and galvanic - thanks for the replies

Unfortuneately these aren't MOP, but it seemed like the best place to post these. I like pipes and pocketknives, so these smokers tools really appeal to me. I usually just use a pipe nail or the trusty czech 3 in one - no worries if you loose either of those

From the looks of the display board they were attatched to, I was thinking 70's also...maybe early 80's.