All About Pocket Knives

I always wondered how they talked models into doing this, and how many they went through???

I cringe Mason.

MB I copied that,guess what I'm looking for.

Thanks everybody for posting.

The photo of the knife thrower and model is exactly that, a photograph.

We have no idea whether she just stepped into an arrangement of knives stuck into a board or if the man was actually capable of performing that feat with that degree of accuracy.

Personally, I'm doubtful.

It's a publicity still.

Lyle, I'll help you. I think I see one at the elbow of the Arm & Hammer logo in the NYK section. Cannot see the whole master blade, but the frame looks right. That's the only one I saw, but there may be more.

Charlie Noyes

John Baker Omohundro (July 26, 1846 – June 28, 1880), also known as "Texas Jack," was a frontier scout, actor, and cowboy.

He was born at Pleasure Hill, near Palmyra, Virginia, to John B. and Catherine Omohundro. In his early teens, he left home, made his way alone to Texas, and became a cowboy. He was unable to join the Confederate Army in 1861 because of his youth but, in 1864, he enlisted in Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's command as a courier and scout.

After the American Civil War, Omohundro resumed his life as a Texas cowboy. He participated in early cattle drives, notably on the Chisholm Trail. On one drive across Arkansas to meat-short Tennessee, grateful citizens nicknamed him "Texas Jack."

Shortly after the Civil War, Omohundro adopted a five-year-old boy whose parents had been killed by Native Americans. He cared for him and called him Texas Jack Jr., since his real last name was unknown.

In 1869, he moved to Cottonwood Springs, Nebraska, near Fort McPherson and became a scout and buffalo hunter. There he met William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Together, they participated in Indian skirmishes and buffalo hunts, acted as guides for notables such as the Earl of Dunraven, and led the highly publicized royal hunt of 1872 with Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia and a group of prominent American military figures.

Omohundro and Cody traveled to Chicago in December 1872 to debut in The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Wild West shows produced by Ned Buntline. Critics described Omohundro as physically impressive and magnetic in personality. He was the first performer to introduce roping acts to the American stage. During the 1873-74 season, Omohundro and Cody invited their friend James Butler Wild Bill Hickok to join them in a new play called Scouts of the Plains.

During the 1870s, Texas Jack divided his time between the Eastern stage circuit and the hunting ranges of the Great Plains. He guided hunting parties that included European nobility. On August 31, 1873, Omohundro married Giuseppina Morlacchi, a dancer and actress from Milan, Italy, who starred with him in the Scouts of the Prairie and other shows.

He headed his own acting troupe in St. Louis in 1877. He also wrote articles about his hunting and scouting experiences, published in eastern newspapers and popular magazines. The Texas Jack legend grew in many dime novels, particularly those written by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. In 1900, Joel Chandler Harris featured Texas Jack in a series of fictional accounts of the Confederacy for the Saturday Evening Post. Texas Jack died in 1880, of pneumonia, in Leadville, Colorado, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery there.

Texas Jack Jr. carried on in the wild west show business around the world, especially in South Africa.[2]

In 1954 Herschel Logan, a gun collector who acquired a pistol belonging to Texas Jack, published the biography Buckskin and Satin. In 1980, the Texas Jack Association was formed to preserve and promote Texas Jack's memory.

In 1994, Texas Jack Omohundro was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in the Hall of Great Western Performers.

Here is a woman holding an exhibition knife.

Wow Dimitri - - that is one sizable exhibition knife with about just about every blade or pocket knife implement known to man ... any clue of maker or year of photo? Almost looks 1940-50'ish to me but thats just a guess...

RHOACO wrote:John Baker Omohundro (July 26, 1846 – June 28, 1880), also known as "Texas Jack," was a frontier scout, actor, and cowboy.

He was born at Pleasure Hill, near Palmyra, Virginia, to John B. and Catherine Omohundro. In his early teens, he left home, made his way alone to Texas, and became a cowboy. He was unable to join the Confederate Army in 1861 because of his youth but, in 1864, he enlisted in Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's command as a courier and scout.

After the American Civil War, Omohundro resumed his life as a Texas cowboy. He participated in early cattle drives, notably on the Chisholm Trail. On one drive across Arkansas to meat-short Tennessee, grateful citizens nicknamed him "Texas Jack."

Shortly after the Civil War, Omohundro adopted a five-year-old boy whose parents had been killed by Native Americans. He cared for him and called him Texas Jack Jr., since his real last name was unknown.

In 1869, he moved to Cottonwood Springs, Nebraska, near Fort McPherson and became a scout and buffalo hunter. There he met William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Together, they participated in Indian skirmishes and buffalo hunts, acted as guides for notables such as the Earl of Dunraven, and led the highly publicized royal hunt of 1872 with Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia and a group of prominent American military figures.

Omohundro and Cody traveled to Chicago in December 1872 to debut in The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Wild West shows produced by Ned Buntline. Critics described Omohundro as physically impressive and magnetic in personality. He was the first performer to introduce roping acts to the American stage. During the 1873-74 season, Omohundro and Cody invited their friend James Butler Wild Bill Hickok to join them in a new play called Scouts of the Plains.

During the 1870s, Texas Jack divided his time between the Eastern stage circuit and the hunting ranges of the Great Plains. He guided hunting parties that included European nobility. On August 31, 1873, Omohundro married Giuseppina Morlacchi, a dancer and actress from Milan, Italy, who starred with him in the Scouts of the Prairie and other shows.

He headed his own acting troupe in St. Louis in 1877. He also wrote articles about his hunting and scouting experiences, published in eastern newspapers and popular magazines. The Texas Jack legend grew in many dime novels, particularly those written by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. In 1900, Joel Chandler Harris featured Texas Jack in a series of fictional accounts of the Confederacy for the Saturday Evening Post. Texas Jack died in 1880, of pneumonia, in Leadville, Colorado, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery there.

Texas Jack Jr. carried on in the wild west show business around the world, especially in South Africa.[2]

In 1954 Herschel Logan, a gun collector who acquired a pistol belonging to Texas Jack, published the biography Buckskin and Satin. In 1980, the Texas Jack Association was formed to preserve and promote Texas Jack's memory.

In 1994, Texas Jack Omohundro was inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in the Hall of Great Western Performers.

Neat story of a colorful cowboy.

Miller Bro's wrote:Here is a woman holding an exhibition knife.

Strong gal.

LongBlade wrote:Wow Dimitri - - that is one sizable exhibition knife with about just about every blade or pocket knife implement known to man ... any clue of maker or year of photo? Almost looks 1940-50'ish to me but thats just a guess...

Lee nothing know about the photo. The way the woman is dressed would suggest 1940-50's but the knife is definitely older than that.

Both the knife and the woman look European to me.

There are reasons for saying that about the knife, the woman just reminds me of photos from Germany prior to WWII.

No factual basis whatever for thinking that.

Charlie

Miller Bro's wrote:

LongBlade wrote:Wow Dimitri - - that is one sizable exhibition knife with about just about every blade or pocket knife implement known to man ... any clue of maker or year of photo? Almost looks 1940-50'ish to me but thats just a guess...

Lee nothing know about the photo. The way the woman is dressed would suggest 1940-50's but the knife is definitely older than that.

I have seen that picture before with a description but can't find it. I believe that knife was made in Bohemia (later Czechoslovakia) where many great knives were produced.

A huge folding knife.

Now that's a KNIFE!

Colonel26 wrote:Why that's ol TR himself.

HET!!! Is not!

Rudy, my main man. Probably 1960s or 1970s.

RobesonsRme.com wrote:
Lyle, I'll help you. I think I see one at the elbow of the Arm & Hammer logo in the NYK section. Cannot see the whole master blade, but the frame looks right. That's the only one I saw, but there may be more.

Charlie Noyes

Could be Charlie,it's a shame the photograph is not clearer.Looks like the master blade is through the backing.

That is a great knife display.

tongueriver wrote:TR.jpg

Colonel26 wrote:Why that's ol TR himself.

HET!!! Is not!

Is J P Champlain Cal ?

wlf wrote:

tongueriver wrote:TR.jpg

Colonel26 wrote:Why that's ol TR himself.

HET!!! Is not!

Is J P Champlain Cal ?

Just a weak joke; I go by TR here sometimes. The photo is Teddy fer sure.

I didn't even think about that. Lol

tongueriver wrote:

wlf wrote:

tongueriver wrote:TR.jpg



HET!!! Is not!

Is J P Champlain Cal ?

Just a weak joke; I go by TR here sometimes. The photo is Teddy fer sure.

From a weaker mind.

A young butcher.

Wouldn't you just really like to know how that young man's life unfolded from that photograph forward?

Charlie Noyes

Possibly married Lizzy Borden? ftd

Nice photo.
It's nice to see someone using the incredibly effective steel even if it is in a old photo.
Very proper young man.