All About Pocket Knives

Thanks WB!

I have seen the forks with the bone but not any spoons.

Oh well, the fork and knife's all you need. Who eats soup at Thanksgiving, anyway?!

WB

Those are beauties MB. Really fantastic jigging. I have a set that I will post, the color is slightly different and they are not in as nice shape. Great set, they would look so good with a very fine meal.

Joe, you have a great collection. I love carbon steel kitchen knives. In the kitchen is where I use carbon steel knives each and every day. I love the number of chef knives you have, if you ever want to part with a couple let me know.

Quick Steel wrote:

I believe Swiss Army is dropping the Forshner label and will use the standard Swiss Army label. This may have already taken effect.

They have the Victorinox label on them now. Same knife as before.

Currently this is all I have....Meriden Cutlery Company....

She is a beauty!

My Swedish grandmother used this knife for years. She passed away about 50 years ago. My dad inherited some of her treasures, including this knife. Sometime in the 70s he had to replace the shattered Ebony handle. He whittled it out of some hard maple he had. I think the bolster is original. When my Dad passed away I became the curator (5 Siblings) of Grandma Erika's things. In that trunk was this knife. Since I have had it, it has been stuck in a Chicago Cutlery knife block (for about 15 years). Hoping to identify the maker I have taken these photos this morning. The years of use and sharpening has made the "trademark" nearly invisible, but I am betting some of our members can at least identify the original trademark if not the age. It will soon go to one of the great or great-great grands and I would like to be able to put an identification along with the heirloom. Thanks folks.

Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett-OVB (Our Very Best)
Great story and really nice heirloom!!

WB

Good one WB. Nice knife Old Gar. Good old family stuff.

I picked this up at the flea market today. The main reason I bought it was the unusual way the jigged bone handles were attached. There are no pins. The silver (ferrels?) are holding them on, I guess. It looks like the bone scales extend under the hollow silver fittings. Probably some cutlers cement used as well. Stamped in the blade is: GEO. WOSTENHOLM & SON'S - CELEBRATED I-X-L CUTLERY - SHEFFIELD - ENGLAND.

Knife-nut if I owned that one it would be what I'd carve my Thanksgiving turkey with no doubt about it. That's a fine looking knife.

Thank You Philco. I have a few sets of these, and I do use them at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I found a Keen Kutter set for $20.00 a few months back. I still pick them up when I see a good price.

That is a gorgeous knife, k-n. The bone is lovely and the silver work is really something else. Great score!

Thank You Beechtree.

Beautiful silver work on that one

Thank You Dimitri.

As said before a beautiful knife.Those scales I think look like what is commonly called popcorn stag rather than bone.Wostenholm used a lot of stag like that on their knives.I have several folders that use it.

knife7knut wrote:As said before a beautiful knife.Those scales I think look like what is commonly called popcorn stag rather than bone.Wostenholm used a lot of stag like that on their knives.I have several folders that use it.

Is popcorn stag actually stag, or is it a style of jigged bone? To me this looks like a jigged bone.

I thought this was kind of unusual.

It is a Landers of L.F. & C. fame. You don`t see many marked this way and to top it off it is stamped with the St. Louis 1904 grand prize mark.

It measures 15 1/4" overall with a 9 3/4" blade. I almost did not even look at this knife due to the blade wear and it was covered in rust, but curiosity got the best of me so I scraped the rust away and was surprised at the marks I found on this old blade

The Landers is unusual too in the way it was handled. Most High end knives were hafted on a through tang with 3 rivets. Older ones with 4 small pins. And often on a tapered tang.
Neat knife, MB.

Here's a old Landers Frary and Clark with two pins in a ebony handle and a tapered tang.

FRJ wrote:The Landers is unusual too in the way it was handled. Most High end knives were hafted on a through tang with 3 rivets. Older ones with 4 small pins. And often on a tapered tang.
Neat knife, MB.

Thanks Joe

I noticed that too!

FRJ wrote:Kitchen cutlery, and some accessories.

Whoa! I drove through Connecticut but I didn't think it was that big! Very nice collection.

I have another post here on larger kitchen knives so I thought I'd throw these onto this thread and bring it back up.
There are several sets of steak knives;three of which are made by Hakusui Inami;who is the owner of the Japan Sword Co.Ltd.The quality of these knives is second to none.
There is also a service for six(knives & forks)mahde by Keen Kutter.Strangely enough they came without the box;which I found many years later.They fit perfectly into the box so I assume that is what it was made for.
There are other odd knives by various makers including a handmade paring knife by Ernest Warther.Bought at an antique shop for $2.
Also a rather odd knife by Remington called the Moby Dick with an etch on the blade simulating a whale.
This post will probably run on for several posts so sit back and enjoy.Feel free to ask questions about any of them.

Some more.........................

Ray, you just amaze me.