All About Pocket Knives

I know that this knife isn't an obscure maker by any means. Its a Boker, but it has the same sort of abalone inlay as the Fairplay brothers. I have a couple of these that I will have to dig out. These kinds of knives are pretty.

this is a great thread ! i enjoy checking these old ones out. i think i have one a WADE & BUTCHER think 1947 was last year

I just remembered this old bird. It is an over sized fleam with alot of provenance. It is stamped in the blade, "JOSEPH GRAY & SON SHEFFIELD Ist PRIZE MEDAL LONDON 1862 SILVER MEDAL PARIS 1878. We were still discovering the western part of the U.S.A. and Europe was having knife expositions.

JACKNIFEBEN wrote:I just remembered this old bird. It is an over sized fleam with alot of provenance. It is stamped in the blade, "JOSEPH GRAY & SON SHEFFIELD Ist PRIZE MEDAL LONDON 1862 SILVER MEDAL PARIS 1878. We were still discovering the western part of the U.S.A. and Europe was having knife expositions.

very nice find jkb

Posted before but it belongs here.

good one 46 i cleaned up two more for pictures this morning. one corning knife co. nyc 1900-1920 and a seneca cut which i think was part of utica

Thought I would bump this back up by adding another one. A. Reinig is marked on the blade. I have no info on this one.

J PRITZLAFF HDW. CO. , MILWAUKEE , WI.

That's a cool one! You got me looking... I thought I had one from Milwaukee, but it turned out to be a knife from Duluth.

knifegirl888 wrote:That's a cool one! You got me looking... I thought I had one from Milwaukee, but it turned out to be a knife from Duluth.

WOW ! Those are some neat bolsters onthat one !

Bob

knifegirl888 wrote:That's a cool one! You got me looking... I thought I had one from Milwaukee, but it turned out to be a knife from Duluth.

can't say i ever seen bolsters like that, good one

robinetn wrote:

knifegirl888 wrote:That's a cool one! You got me looking... I thought I had one from Milwaukee, but it turned out to be a knife from Duluth.

WOW ! Those are some neat bolsters on that one !

Bob

I 'm a sucker for this kind of thing. I couldn't pass it up even though the blades were worn. It does seem like a well made knife.

Remington made that knife on contract.

Remington is the only company that used those bolsters

I looked at those bolsters and said. "Wow, must have been tough hafting those bolsters."
After enlarging the pic, I see it was!

Neat knife!
Very cool.
Thanks for sharing it.

Miller Bro`s wrote:Remington made that knife on contract.

Remington is the only company that used those bolsters

That's awesome info, Dimitri!

Thanks for the nice comments, everyone!

I had a Remington 6285 whittler that used the same bolsters.

orvet wrote:I looked at those bolsters and said. "Wow, must have been tough hafting those bolsters."
After enlarging the pic, I see it was!

It wasn`t tough at all Dale. They stamped them out by the thousands

The tough part was fitting the handle material around them.

Here's another fleam, G. Gregory, horn handles, chipped but still solid. Don't know the age, but pretty old - Civil War?

tjmurphy wrote:Here's another fleam, G. Gregory, horn handles, chipped but still solid. Don't know the age, but pretty old - Civil War?

Tom,
That is a nice VERY OLD fleam!
Goins' lists the name with no further reference, date or anything.
Bernard Levine, (LG4) has a bit more, (see page 55)
Levine has G. Gregory listed as "made fleams" in Sheffield England.
He has him listed as a manufacturer, as opposed to a wholesaler or retailer.
I found the date most interesting, he dates it as circa "1820?"
Apparently Bernard Levine thinks it is much older than the Civil War era!
He also rates it as highly collectible.

I think you made a nice score on that one buddy!

WOW!! 1820?? Now that is old. That old fleam was gifted to me by the same person who gave me the pocket watch. Thanks for the info Dale. I never really knew very much about it. The old thing is still razor sharp.

TJ,

your handles are not chipped. They have been eaten by the larve of a Dermistid beetle. I would suggest you keep the fleam in a zip-loc bag with a moth ball in it, otherwise the handle will eventually get eaten again.

I have had this happen to me on several knives. I now keep them seperate and in sealed bags.

Now that's interesting. Dadgum moths. Actually the handles are in the same condition as when I received it, but I will take your advise. The old "ounce of prevention". Thanks Dimitri.

tjmurphy wrote:Here's another fleam, G. Gregory, horn handles, chipped but still solid. Don't know the age, but pretty old - Civil War?

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TJ,

When Bret & I got home today, we read your post. Bret had gotten a couple of knives in the mail this week & one of them was an old fleam. The "blades" were pretty corroded & he asked me to get the loupe and see who made ours. It's a pretty neat coincidence, but it turns out to be a G. Gregory.

Hey KG - That's pretty cool. Mine doesn't say "cast steel". I see yours has the one blade that is a little different than the other two, having an extra little point on the tip of the blade, the one closest to the handle. Mine has a blade like that too. Reckon each blade was for a different purpose? Reckon why more than one blade? Your handles are much nicer than mine. Like Dimitri said, keep it in a zip-lock bag with a moth ball in it - got to preserve these old timers.

tjmurphy wrote:Hey KG - That's pretty cool. Mine doesn't say "cast steel". I see yours has the one blade that is a little different than the other two, having an extra little point on the tip of the blade, the one closest to the handle. Mine has a blade like that too. Reckon each blade was for a different purpose? Reckon why more than one blade? Your handles are much nicer than mine. Like Dimitri said, keep it in a zip-lock bag with a moth ball in it - got to preserve these old timers.

The blades on ours are in much worse shape than yours, but the one blade does appear to be different. Lots of good questions... maybe someone else might know more? Perhaps one of our guys might be a veterinarian?

Remembered this old one today. Haynes Stellite (1910-1922 per Goins' Encyclopedia)