Vintage Mother Of Pearl (MOP) Knives

[edgy46]

Great knives folks, keep them coming. Here is one that I believe to be rare. Marked HAYNES over STELLITE on both blades. Goins listed it from 1910 thru 1922. Stellite is a cobalt chromium alloy developed in 1898 1899 by Elwood Haynes of Kokomo Indiana. He made the stellite for the blades and springs in his lab that was in a barn in his backyard, and they were sold by mail order. Elwood Haynes also held the patent for stainless steel. I could not get a picture of the backspring, but it has a luster like nothing I have seen. John Goins gave it a half page in his last book.

[smiling-knife]

One more to add... a nice George Buttler penknife with a wavy backspring. Made circa 1930s to 50s I suspect.

[Miller Bro's]

Bill,

That Haynes is rare, very nice

S-K,

Very attractive file work on that old pearl

[gino]

Nice lookin one SK, I like that spring very cool - even the liners are neat lookin.

[smiling-knife]

Thanks Gino.

Here a penknife with scissors and a nail file cut into one of the backsprings. s-k

[knifegirl888]

Great looking pearls!

[Miller Bro's]

S-K,
That is very unusual to see the file in the backspring

I think the spring on the scissors is a replacement.

Still a very nice knife, thanks for showing it

[smiling-knife]

Thanks MB. yes, the spring very well could be a replacement. Seems to work well though.

This fish knife with silver blade dates to 1875. The handle is a single piece of mop. s-k

[johnnierotten]

Wow...I don't know how I missed this thread.
Heres some of mine...I'll take pics of others tomorrow.

Hey MB....I got a Case 8261 like yours...same cool blade.

[Miller Bro's]

JR,

Nice ones!!

That little Robeson is clean

Don`t stop now

[johnnierotten]

Some of these I have sold or traded....I bought a guys MOP collection of 56 knives....most are from that collection.

[johnnierotten]

Some more..

[knifegirl888]

JR,

What can I say? That little S&M....

[johnnierotten]

Thank you.

[johnnierotten]

Well,this is the last of them....I took these pics this am.

[johnnierotten]

Last three....

[tjmurphy]

Wow Johnnie - You've got enough pearl there to paint a car. They sure look good

[johnnierotten]

Thanks TJ. ....I remember when I hated MOP knives...because of how easy they were to crack or chip..(had a few bad experience's)..but now I have gotten over my phobia..and love'm.
Sadly,I had gotten rid of quite a few....still have around 30.

[knifegirl888]

Lots of beauties there!!!

[johnnierotten]

Thank you much.

[edgy46]

Nice knives johnnie

[johnnierotten]

Thank ya,Bill.

[smiling-knife]

A little wostenholm penknife. The Firth stainless blades date it to mid 1920-to late 1930s period. s-k

[gino]

Great pearl SK and I dig that bail. Very cool knife.

[johnnierotten]

Beautiful colors in that one,SK.