All About Pocket Knives

Thanks Lee, I'm beaming with pride - so much to take in all at once - it's almost overwhelming but I think I'll make it

Here's a nice little pearl.

Beauty Joe - that knife first appears in my 1914 catalog so she could be over 100 years old - thanks for sharing her with us.

Thanks, Tom. It's nice to have an approximate date.

Beautiful knife, Joe! Nice to see an L F & C in pearl.
Dan

Thank you, Dan.

LF&C Pearl Lobster with Candle Tip NS Bolsters.

That's a very nice knife, TheMadHungarian. Nice photo too.

Here is a very nice Tuxedo that is quite well dressed. Unsharpened, crisp little blades. 3 inches.
Very slippery on the tooth, thus, celluloid.

Really nice Joe, you know I'm all about anything LF&C, especially a well dressed man like that! Well played my friend.

An un-used cattle knife with a little spiderystuffnotbad. The covers seem to be just like the Boker gumfuddy. This knife is snappynew!

Nice looking old knife!

Sweet cattle knife!

Nice L. F. & C. Knives and other items. I have two L. F. & C. Universal knives. The first one is a pen knife with the #02275. I believe I made my intro to AAPK with this knife. There was a bit of a controversy with regards to the model number and the bone scales. The model number was never found in anyone's books so I sort of came in with a bang. I believe Lee (LongBlade), said it was probably made very early on - 1912 or so. The scales, as a consensus, were the result of a re-handling job. The second one is a pruner knife with cocobolo(?) wood, model #2132.

Nice knives Felix. I have the following LF&C Catalogs:
(1) "Catalogue No. 48 1914"
(2) "Service Catalog No. 61 1919"
(3) "Service Catalogue No. 261 1922"
(4) "Catalogue No. 262 1922"
(5) "Jeweler's Catalogue No. 12 1926"
(6) "Sectional No. 1 1926"
(7) "Supplement To Cutlery Catalog No. 1 1928"
(8) "Sectional Catalog No. 31 1931"
and none of them list a model #02275 so Lee may be correct with the circa 1912 call.

Your model 2132 is listed in catalogs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 above and originally sold for $16/dozen (yup $1.33 each), was 4" long with cocobolo handles, glazed pruning blade, iron bolsters and iron lined.

Both knives are winners in my neck of the woods!

bestgear wrote:Nice knives Felix. I have the following LF&C Catalogs:
(1) "Catalogue No. 48 1914"
(2) "Service Catalog No. 61 1919"
(3) "Service Catalogue No. 261 1922"
(4) "Catalogue No. 262 1922"
(5) "Jeweler's Catalogue No. 12 1926"
(6) "Sectional No. 1 1926"
(7) "Supplement To Cutlery Catalog No. 1 1928"
(8) "Sectional Catalog No. 31 1931"
and none of them list a model #02275 so Lee may be correct with the circa 1912 call.

Your model 2132 is listed in catalogs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 above and originally sold for $16/dozen (yup $1.33 each), was 4" long with cocobolo handles, glazed pruning blade, iron bolsters and iron lined.

Both knives are winners in my neck of the woods!

Thanks, Bestgear. I thought I'd include a close up photo of the model number. I think I remember seeing a model #02276 but no #02275

Thank Felix - in 1912 LF&C bought out Humason & Beckley and started their pocket knife division. Many of the early LF&C models are identical to their H&B counterpart. It could be that model #02275 was one of those carryover models and by 1914 (my first catalog) it was no longer offered or replaced by a new LF&C model number. You could have a very rare early (as Lee correctly pointed-out) LF&C. As far the covers being replaced, while the brass pins don't seem 105 years old and with a similar patina to the rest of the knife, without having the knife in-hand it's hard to tell. What do you think?

I agree. Msteele6 -- way back when -- was the first to notice that the scales were not original to the knife. He said they should have been the rough black material. (Someone said that the re-handling was done someone was very good at it.) He then asked me to check for a hole on the inside, where a shield may have once been. I did and there it was - a hole on the inside. I was shocked at the knife knowledge that I had encountered on AAPK. I'm not sure who it was that said the pins were spun and not peened as well. Msteele6 also mentioned that "L.F.&C. bought two major cutlery players". The one you mentioned - Humason & Beckley and Meriden Cutlery Co. They dissected the knife like surgeons without ever touching it. The only thing that was never found was the model number.

Before all this I had done research (google) on other pocket knives. Guess what site would always pop up? Yup. AAPK, by a long shot. But seeing it firsthand was shocking, and very cool.

Here's a little whittler. 3 5/16".
It has a wonderful nickel silver wedge in the back.
Secondaries with half stops. A very solid little gem.
Thanks for looking.

Lovely knife, Joe!
Dan

Thank you very much, Dan.

Very nice and the closest thing I've seen to the one my friend found at a job I worked up north I cleaned it up for her and I've been trying to figure out should I fix it or leave it alone its bone or ivory and both blades are in really good shape but the lock/ release is broke any help would be greatly appreciated

Welcome here, DemonV.
I assume you'r commenting on the pearl Whittler just previous.
Thank you. This knife doesn't have a lock.
Unless you'r an experienced knife mechanic fixing a broken lock could prove to be very frustrating.

FRJ wrote:Here's a little whittler. 3 5/16".
It has a wonderful nickel silver wedge in the back.
Secondaries with half stops. A very solid little gem.
Thanks for looking.

Very nice Joe, thanks for sharing.

Thank you, Bill. Always glad to share and show off these old knives.

The only two I have.