All About Pocket Knives

paulsvintage wrote:

trutemper wrote:Wow, Paul that sure is a pretty knife! Just love that winged shield and that bone is dynamite! Welcome to the 60 club....I turned 60 back in April! Born in `51.

Bob

thanks Bob, i think sixty is the year everything starts hurting

Yeah, seems true.....I`ve had more aches, pains, injuries, surgeries and tests on this body in the last 7 or 8 months than Ive had in the previous 50 finally found out my gall bladder is full of gall ....had it taken out and I`m finally ready to raise ---- again.....I think(knock on wood)!

Man, those are some pretty knives, Mike and Paul!!!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think I have posted this one in this thread before.

Goins says Liberty Knife Co., c 1919-1925.
They were located in New Haven CT.

nice old one Dale ..same town the Marlin rifle factory was in........

Back on page 5, PaulsVintage wrote in reference to a Robeson Jimmie Allen two clip blade jack:
"Joe, here is a picture of the knife from the NKCA gallery . thought it was odd myself"

My questions are, What exactly is the NKCA gallery? How does one get there? And why do they have photos of my knives there?

Or, did Paul mean to type "AAPK gallery" instead of NKCA?

Charlie Noyes

Quite the show here. I really like that M&W knife.

Got this Conn. Cutlery (Naugatuck) stabber jack yesterday. The back of the blade serves as the kick and it has a lot of snap left in it.

obsidianedge i like that big spear blade on that conn. cutlery knife nice

Mike thats a beauty.......great you found one still in great shape
have one to add to this great thread ! Marsh bros & Co. celebrated cutlery. could be Civil War period if not very close

Thanks Paul. I had never heard of Marsh Brothers before (just looked it up in Levine's Guide), but that is a very cool knife you have. Pinched and threaded bolsters, cool shield, handle material, swedges, etc. etc.

I believe this one to be a bit rare.....Utica Cigar Jack.
If anyone can help me out with info....Please do.

I don't know if the pattern is rare or not, but I think the worked bolsters and the shield, which seems real out of place on the knife, are after-market personalization. I like it though.

tjmurphy wrote: I think the worked bolsters and the shield, which seems real out of place on the knife, are after-market personalization.

The Patent on the blade refers to the design that you see on the bolsters

Hey Dimitri, good information, I learned something today, and that is good.

ObsidianEdge, that Conn. Cutlery might be the perfect knife, to my eye.

Almost forgot this one. JACK KNIFE SHOP. After Benjamin Chong retired from selling knives at Union Stock Yards in Chicago he turned it over to his boys. That would be in the 1930.s and they changed the tang stamp from JACK KNIFE BEN CHICAGO to JACK KNIFE SHOP CHICAGO. This one still has an etch "JACK KNIFE SHOP HANDY DANDY". They had UNION STOCK YARDS on the spey blade tang just like the first ones. If you are lucky enough to find a real old one made by Napanoch or Winchester all the blades had JACK KNIFE BEN CHICAGO on the front and UNION STOCK YARDS on the back.

trail wrote:ObsidianEdge, that Conn. Cutlery might be the perfect knife, to my eye.

Thanks Trail. The blade looks a little better in person. (had a couple of custom makers tell me they'd like to make that pattern.)

Great post on the Jack Ben knives, and a super knife!

Jack...that’s a BEAUTIFUL cattlemans knife.

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The Patent on the blade refers to the design that you see on the bolsters

Thanks Dimitri. ....I was told this but wasn't 100% positive....Thanks for the info,Partner!!

Hey Jacknifeben, that one was made by Schrade Cut. Co., VERY nice!

Eric

johnnierotten wrote:I was told this but wasn't 100% positive.

Here is a patent they had for a different design:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=A6VuAA ... &q&f=false

Awesome bolster pattern.. .....I would like to see a pic of an actual knife with those bolsters.

I love those bolsters Johnnie!

That is one georgious knife Johnnie....thanks for showin!

Bob

johnny and jackknifeben those are some good looking jacks

Hide all your knives with rose wood and ebony handles. The F.B.I. raided Gibson guitars because they were importing wood from India for frets. Watch out T.J.

I ain't a skeert!! C.F. Martin Guitar Company uses the exact same woods as Gibson and gets them from the same place, yet they were not raided. The difference between Gibson and Martin?? Gibson contributes to Republican candidates and Martin contributes to the Democrats (I read this and cannot attest to it being true). Not the first time the Feds have raided Gibson.