All About Pocket Knives

Very nice, Phil.

Charlie

With a "U" shaped frame, I'm wondering if the knives were not made by Walkill Cutlery.

Charlie

Wallkill wouldn't be a bad connection. All day long ............. it could be ....

I got this from Goins.

Thanks, Charlie.

Nice knives, Phil.

FRJ wrote:Nice knives, Phil.

Thank you sir.

I picked up this Robeson 3 1/4" SCOUT about a year or so ago .
French ivory cell handles , never sharpened and no pattern number . Possibly missing a removable lanyard and chain ?
Thanks for looking .

Cool knife Mike, I like French Ivory covers

I think I tried to buy that celluloid "Scout" jack.

I, too, think it was a Boy's Knife and had a chain and button loop on it.

Very nice.

Charlie

Well, it turns out I bought a few Robeson's. Didn't plan on it but there they were. Ya can't just drive around them.

This big old 3 7/8" jack is pretty cool with it's big bolster, wide spring and blade. Very strong snap. The secondary blade is thinner, but just as snappy as the big spear. Robeson's old whatever covers and a cool stamped beaver image on the blade. Not an etch.
Just about a nail breaker. Half stops X 2.

Here's a nice Mastercraft whittler. 3 5/8". Very nice old knife.

A very sweet little 3" gunstock that Charlie Noyes commented on in another thread.

The last of these knives is a really cool "Pocket eze" equal end jack. 3 3/4". Just a great all around knife. Coined liners which I didn't photograph. Easy to open blades.
Thanks for looking.

Very nice Joe! Hard to beat a Robeson. I am especially drawn to the Pocket Eze Jack and Mastercraft Whittler. What's not to like--hidden joints, bronze bearings, beautiful jigged brown bone are all very cool in a vintage folder Overall, just a wonderful group of vintage Robesons Lloyd

Joe, those are all very nice knives.

If the handle material is not ebony on that hefty jack, it is an early form of Micarta.

I've always wondered about that beaver etch or stamp on that knife. The complete stamp shows a rasp or file beneath the beaver. Made me wonder if it wasn't an adverting piece. The knife is shown in old, old catalogs, so it must have been a regular production piece.

They made a very similar knife, etched "BULL DOG". It had a different pattern number, 220, I think, but I'm hard pressed to see a difference in their construction. I think there might have been a difference in length.

You've been getting some nice Robesons lately.

Charlie

WOW Joe, those are fantastic! What great bone on three of them. The equal end is interesting for the different size bolsters, never saw that before on an equal end. And that gunstock is a nice knife with great bone. The jack with the beaver etch looks almost like a Barlow with that long bolster. A knife made for hard work. Great Robesons Joe!

This came home with me yesterday from one of those antique malls that are so common now. Fun to look around in with the wife wife though and I stumbled across this little senator in strawberry bone. Disappointed with the shield missing but I couldn't leave her behind. I was surprised in looking at the knife that the shield appears to have been glued in rather than pinned. I would appreciate your input on that Charlie. I thought maybe this is a Queen made Robeson but the tang mark indicates otherwise.

Nice little senator Steve. The glued shield is kind of surprising. It sure looks like a Robeson.

Thank you, Lloyd, Charlie, and Steve for the comments.
What a great place to show off knives.

Thanks Joe. I was surprised too. I'm not so familiar with Robeson tang stamps from memory to recognize the era the knife was made at the shop. But when I got home and checked this site and Price & Zalesky, I was surprised. Just assumed a pinned shield in the era. Its possible this has been apart though, a gap exists between the liner and the back spring on the pile side. And the bone just seems a little too red, but hope springs eternal.

Strawberry bone handled knives were made between 1948 and 1959 or 60.

They were trying to survive and compete and unfortunately, the company failed in 1965.

I suppose, as a cost and labor saving measure, the shields during that time period and afterward were glued in place.

I might have one here that would fit. They came in a couple of sizes.

There's nothing wrong with that bone.

Charlie

Thanks for the insight Charlie. I didn't realize the strawberry bone era was as short as that. I'll PM you regarding the shield Charlie.

Steve, they converted to "strawberry" colored Delrin in 59 or 60, depending on whose book you read. Strawberry bone was definitely gone by 1960.

Charlie

Nice old knives!

I have this real strange Robeson Mastercraft 623653 , both blades kind of ratchet open and closed see pictures . Reverse small blade has PAT.APP on the tang . Poor condition but interesting .
It's a large knife at 3 3/4" closed .
Any help would be greatly appreciated .

ScoutKnives, your Robeson Mastercraft is very similar to the Pocket Eze I posted on previous page.
I mistakenly called mine an equal end. Actually it's a swell end jack.
Does your knife have coined liners?

Thanks Joe , looks like the same frame BUT !

It might of had coined liners but it's very worn , what I feel is very different are the stops on both blades , instead of half stops it has 1/4 stops lol , both blades kinda ratchet open and closed .

FRJ wrote:ScoutKnives, your Robeson Mastercraft is very similar to the Pocket Eze I posted on previous page.
I mistakenly called mine an equal end. Actually it's a swell end jack.
Does your knife have coined liners?

I noticed that in your pictures. Very odd ------ how would anyone explain tangs like that?
It should have bronze bearings.