All About Pocket Knives

Nice one Lyle, I think I have a daddy barlow marked Lenox

Joe, beautiful Miller, that knife has my name written all over it!

Nice knives everyone. Here's three H. Bokers added to the mix.

What's the length of those Roger? 3 5/8"s ? Cool etch, of what significance is the Radium trademark?

First one looks like pressed stag again.

Has anyone seen pressed stag on an American made knife? All I can remember are European.

Three more beauties, greedy. The pearl is interesting, could almost be called a swell centre wharncliff?
Dan

Lyle: The stag is 3 & 3/4", pearl is 3 & 1/2" and the bone handled one is 4".

Boker trademarked Radium in 1904 and used that etch on some of their earlier knives. Here's some clearer pictures and variations of the radium etch.

Not sure if that one is patent stag; The consistency is different. I think it is just pocket worn stag.

Thanks Dan!

Googled Radium Roger,might have been the heaviest known element of the time??

Just wondered why that trademark.

Roger those are nice.The pearl is an unusual frame.

thegreedygulo wrote:Nice knives everyone. Here's three H. Bokers added to the mix.

...beautiful!!!!..love the 2 bone handled ones!!!..... .........

Nice Bokers Roger... ... every one a beauty!

Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked them.

Here is a lovely, albeit well used American Knife Co. Plymouth (Conn, 1849-1875) whittler with a Wharncliffe master. The pen and coping secondary blades are marked in the old horizontal style. The ivory handles have a choice master side, showing excellent natural striations.

Ah, the old ones. They sure show well. Quite elegant, there. Made right here where I live.
It sure is nice to look at. Thanks for showing that one, Beechtree.

Your welcome Joe, glad you like it. The old ones are my favorite.

Nice one Beechtree!

Awesome Wharncliffe Beechtree ... and a great old maker stamp

Thanks Greedy and LongBlade.

You can almost date an American knife sometimes by the design. Early US makers bore more of a Sheffield influence,
We've always been the land of plenty and it even shows in our knife patterns.

Regarding Madam Marie and Pierre Curie......

"Working with the material pitchblende, the pair discovered a new radioactive element in 1898. They named the element Polonium, after Marie's native country of Poland. They also detected the presence of another radioactive material in the pitchblende and called that Radium. In 1902, the Curies announced they had produced a decigram of pure Radium, demonstrating its existence as a unique chemical element."

That was prominently in the news of the day and surely influenced H. Boker to attempt to capitalize on it in 1904.

Charlie Noyes

Like other posters here, I'm drawn to knives and blades made "in the style of" the Wharncliffe. Because I like the pattern so much, I have several knives that have Wharncliffe or Wharncliffe'ish blades and some which are a cross of the Sheepfoot & Wharncliffe blade which I've named Sheepcliffe. I think the only true modern day Wharncliffe I have, is this Case my daughter gave to me for Christmas of 2011. It's a dandy.

Nice knife Jerry ... I like that sheepcliffe - creative- thats good marketing ... it looks like a nice heavy wharncliffe to me I like it !!

Thanks Charlie.


Lee ,he might be talking about these:

Thanks Lyle ... I must have been half asleep when I replied to Jerry's post and got hung up on this blade called a sheepcliffe - but thanks for posting that blade shape Lyle... indeed it is a sheepcliffe ... the Case Seahorse no doubt is a wharncliffe and has been around forever from my understanding...

Now that I'm awake Jerry - that is one awesome damascus wharncliffe blade ...

Thanks Lee. I just about fell off my chair (and I was sitting on the couch) when I opened that Christmas present.

I needed one of those too Jerry,that was a great present. You'll both remember that Christmas.

This is a little Wharncliffe whittler I just picked up. It's a German made knife which I don't normally collect (I normally collect exclusively American made knives) however, I like this pattern so much I had to have it. Providence Cutlery was in business from 1890 - 1915 (per Goins) so it's around 100 years old, in remarkably good condition: