Not Necessarily A Knife

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Thanks Dimitri.
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I've posted these in other threads. The first is an hors d'oeuvres pik I picked up in Las Palmas, Canary Islands back in '64 when we made a stop there for liberty. I never knew what it was until some time after I joined AAPK.

The second item is a caponizing kit that belonged to my granddad.
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Here is a neat old "Keen Kutter" padlock.
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jerryd6818 wrote:I've posted these in other threads. The first is an hors d'oeuvres pik I picked up in Las Palmas, Canary Islands back in '64 when we made a stop there for liberty. I never knew what it was until some time after I joined AAPK.
I have several sets of those somewhere Jerry.They came in either sets of four;six;or eight and were stuck in vertically to what looked like a shield that had a center pole and a base similarly decorated.They were made in Spain and were quite popular in the 1950's. I'll have to dig them out and post some pics.
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Jerry:Here are those pictures of the little swords.Two of the sets have a sword missing and they are all different.The set of eight has two sets of four similar swords.
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Ray -- I don't remember any of the details of that purchase. I do know I only bought the one. We were supposed to have liberty in Rota Spain but a storm came up just after we boarded ship. It was so rough they couldn't get the liberty boats along side to ferry us to shore, so we steamed down to the Canary Islands and took our liberty at Las Palmas on Grande Canary.

While in port, I also picked this up. When I bought it, I thought it was a dagger but in the last few years, I've decided it's a letter opener. The edges are blunt like a letter opener. It's also something I've previously posted.
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Josh -- Have you ever used that? My buddy bought a battery operated one for me. It works fairly well. Better than poking around in there with a pair of scissors.
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jerryd6818 wrote:
While in port, I also picked this up. When I bought it, I thought it was a dagger but in the last few years, I've decided it's a letter opener. The edges are blunt like a letter opener. It's also something I've previously posted.
Jerry are you sure? I haven't seen many letter openers that come in a sheath that has belt loops on it.Nice little dagger.
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knife7knut wrote:Jerry are you sure?
No.

It will be 50 years ago this November since I bought it so I have no memories about the circumstances. I'm going on the assumption that it's a letter opener because the blade has NO edge. ::shrug:: It's just a piece of junk tourist item.

For me, it's just a piece of memorabilia.
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I found this antique bread making machine at a junk store and thought it was great that it was made by Landers Fray & Clark. Well known knife manufacturers.

It wasn't their patent but it appears that they sold them. Neat stuff

here is the first patent https://patentimages.storage.googleapis ... 3474-0.png
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Here is a fleam and a gum lancet.
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Ugh. Gives me the heebee jeebees just looking at that.
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I can't make the New York connection on this scale but I found another example with Frary from New York so I'm going with Landers Frary & Clark on this one. They are a noted Connecticut firm.
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A nice little pair of Griffon Cutlery Co folding scissors.An unusual feature(and I'm still not sure of the purpose)is what appears to be serrations like a nail file blade along the spine of each blade.
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I had similar serrations on scissors I showed in the "More Scissors" forum and Dimitri tells me they are a nail file.
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A few weekends ago my wife & I drove my nephew to Reno Nevada to he could drive the U Haul back up to Oregon to move his family up to Oregon.
We spent the night in Susanville CA and had a leisurely drive back to Oregon on Sunday. At the town of Alturas we decided to take a break from driving and looked around an antique store. I found a knife to buy and something I thought was a can opener or part of a can opener.

It turns out I was right, it is a Victor can opener, made in Germany and stamped “Patented/Jan. 17, 1913. There is one on ebay now with a US Patent date of 1921 except it appears to have a steel covered wood handle, where mine is brass covered wood.

It was an interesting find and unique for $5.

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orvet wrote:A few weekends ago my wife & I drove my nephew to Reno Nevada to he could drive the U Haul back up to Oregon to move his family up to Oregon.
We spent the night in Susanville CA and had a leisurely drive back to Oregon on Sunday. At the town of Alturas we decided to take a break from driving and looked around an antique store. I found a knife to buy and something I thought was a can opener or part of a can opener.

It turns out I was right, it is a Victor can opener, made in Germany and stamped “Patented/Jan. 17, 1913. There is one on ebay now with a US Patent date of 1921 except it appears to have a steel covered wood handle, where mine is brass covered wood.

It was an interesting find and unique for $5.

Hope you enjoy the pics.
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Does the opener work?
Did you try and open a can?

It looks to work sort of like a ratchet.
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That`s neat Dale 8)

Looks like all it needs is a drop or two of oil :wink:
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Cool finds boys!! ::nod::

Stumbled on this NORTON INDIA COMBINATION Oilstone today.....
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Nice finds JB & Scott ::tu::
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Here are some unused German handle slabs.
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This one belongs here, very unusual.
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Very interesting sheath and system of locking the knife into the sheath. Any idea what the large chunk of metal at the bottom of the sheath is for? Is it sharp enough to be a small hatchet?
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