All About Pocket Knives

Thanks Josh and Charlie! I feel better now. Not sure how it got there but it's not off anything anyone in my family owns. Nor is it likely to cost it's previous owner much to replace it.

Ken

hope i didn't post before

Mumbleypeg wrote:Thanks Josh and Charlie! I feel better now. Not sure how it got there but it's not off anything anyone in my family owns. Nor is it likely to cost it's previous owner much to replace it.

Ken

Somebody probably pitched it. It's broke anyway (split rubber).

Some really old cool stuff. Don't browse off topic too much. Some cool threads. Will have to look at this thread for the beginning at some point when I have 8 hours to spare.

My wife aunt passed tragically in October. She was a major antique nut and had alot of old cool tools, bottles, cans, antique watering cans, hay hooks, old farming plows and equipment, etc. The list goes on and on.

The wife asked if I would enjoy something to have. She had ALOT of stuff! No one else was interested so I grabbed some old tobacco tins and such.

Here are a couple of the pieces I have arranged around the office with all the rest of the gun, fishing and knife stuff.

They are "TOP" tobacco cigarette rollers. It has a wooden dowel under a material that look similar to emery cloth. Insert paper and tobacco and close the tin box and you have a rolled cigarette when you open it. It least that is what I see.

I am guessing 1920' to 1940' but if anyone knows for sure, I would appreciate the info.

Jerry

Pretty Cool Jerry! Just keep away from that Wacky Tobacky!

Thanks Mitch. I have a cool old lunch box that has a side slide out (not hinged top open) with a old Thermos with a cork instead of a screw on top. Cork is original. Personally love old stuff like that myself. Post it soon.

Regards, Jerry

Back when I smoked, I picked up one of these to save money. It worked okay. Not perfect but okay.

Here is something I think is way cool. Had it for a couple months and just opened it yesterday.

Universal Lunch Box Side Slide Out with Thermos. Thermos has cork stopper with the Thermos logo imprinted on it. Used to have a leather strap handle that someone cleverly replaced with what looks like ~3/8" copper tubing.
Best I can tell it is about ~100 years old. Patented in 1913'.

Really neat old piece in my opinion.

Jerry

First time I've ever seen a slide out "lunch bucket". Cool.

Dad always carried a lunch bucket, except when he worked on the farm, only it was the standard hinged lid model. Over the years, a lot of kids carried a lunch bucket to school. Not all the time and certainly not after we got older and started high school.

jerryd6818 wrote:First time I've ever seen a slide out "lunch bucket". Cool.

Dad always carried a lunch bucket, except when he worked on the farm, only it was the standard hinged lid model. Over the years, a lot of kids carried a lunch bucket to school. Not all the time and certainly not after we got older and started high school.

Thanks Jerry. It took me about 20 seconds to figure out how to open the damn thing. Figured it was a top opener also. Jamming my fingernails under the seams on the sides to no avail until I noticed the loop latch pull on the side.
I like the whole thing but I really think the cork top Thermos is extra cool.

I'll bet that was "theatre lunch box" and the handle was with materials at hand, on the job.

Here's some wildflowers that I spotted on a Kentucky hillside yesterday.

Nice.
I took this picture of these Crocus coming up through the cold ground yesterday.
Our first welcome spring flower.

My neice just got back from Germany last week. She was there for work (she's an active duty S/Sgt in the Florida Air National Guard). While there, she picked up this t-shirt for me. She's a great kid and I love it, and her.

SNAGGED THIS EARLIER........

$30
WITH KEY!!!

ACRYLIC COUNTER DISPLAY CASE....
3 SECTIONS OPEN AND LOCK......
TWIRLY TYPE SPINS ROUND............

I COULD DO WITH OUT ALL THE MIRROR BUT HEY.....

Nice score Junebug---

My Son and I grow Orchids and we have a some blooming now.
Thanks for looking
Larry

Wow! Beautiful.

Thank you JerryD

Larry

Those are beautiful Larry.

My wife loves orchids and wants to know how you get them to bloom like that.

Thanks Philco
Raising Orchids is like collecting knives $$$

Larry

On Wednesdays I go and pull a SD card from a game camera and see what is visiting the deer feeder. I usually take a digital camera along as you never know what you might see. I usually have a picture or two of something to send to our grandsons every week from the farm. All these pretty flowers, wild and cultivated, showing up in the AAPK forums are quite beautiful and got me to noticing some irises that are blooming in one of the ponds. At a distance they look okay, but up close they are quite a sight! The back ground of the single bloom is the pond water reflecting the cloudy sky this morning. God's handiwork is all around us.
Treefarmer

Romans 1:20 stuff right there!

Nice call on that one Colonel. I looked that up.

Treefarmer, very nice photographs.
The photo with the flower is really beautiful.

Coursing through the City of Birmingham and the Greater Metropolitan areas of St. Clair, Jefferson and Shelby Counties and beyond is The Cahaba River, the longest free flowing stream in the State, at over two hundred miles.

Local residents have worked for decades to have the whole river declared a scenic and historic river and obtain the ecological protections that would go along with that designation. There has been a multi-mile National Wildlife Refuge along a local section since 2002.

There are five species of small fish and snails that live only in this river.

And, at just about this time of year, actually May thru June, the Cahaba Lilies will begin blooming. The Cahaba Lily is the local name for the now scarce Shoals Lily and to my knowledge, this is the largest remaining stand of Shoals Lilies in the world.

I didn't take these pictures, but this is what aquatic fields of the lilies look like when in bloom.

For more information, here is the website of The Cahaba River Society. Take a tour.

http://www.cahabariversociety.org/recre ... he-lilies/

And the website for the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge is here.

http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=43665



Charlie Noyes