All About Pocket Knives

knife7knut wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:54 pm Still indiscriminately accumulating!

While the sheer quantity and variety of knives in your accumulation might seem "indiscriminate", obviously you aren't accumulating every single knife you possibly could which suggests you must have some criteria that informs your accumulating choices even if it's as vague and simple as knives that appeal to you.

What factor(s) or characteristics of a knife will cause you to decide NOT to add it to your collection? For example, I don't see many modern tactical knives or recent Case, GEC, Queen, etc., releases (or maybe you just haven't shown that part of your collection yet?)

Hope I can answer this coherently as it covers a lot of ground.
Originally my fascination was with so-called, '' switchblades ''. Got a cheap Imperial fishtail from a classmate in junior high school. Lasted about 2 weeks.
Got a few Italian stilettos in high school(still have 2; a couple got confiscated) & that started my '' accumulation '' of them.
Over time my tastes changed from stag-handled knives to pearl to ivory; from large to miniatures to multi-blades,etc..
When pocket knives became hard to find, I started collecting straight razors and then letter openers.
I now look mostly for unique or unusual knives. That is a category that is really difficult to define. I think BRL once called it the, ''n '' factor. When I look at any knife, I try & imagine what the story is behind it: i.e., how old it is; who owned it, & what stories it might tell if it could speak.
I guess that is what fuels my, ''indiscriminate accumulation '' still!

knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:16 pm Hope I can answer this coherently as it covers a lot of ground.

Well put! Thanks

(BRL? )

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:28 pm

knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:16 pm Hope I can answer this coherently as it covers a lot of ground.

Well put! Thanks

(BRL? )

Bernard R. Levine.

knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:27 pm

QTCut5 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:28 pm (BRL? )

Bernard R. Levine.

Of course, duh!

I've been collecting knives manufactured in New Britain Connecticut (go Huskies) for a long time, over 50 years, and one particular knife has eluded me for some time but no longer. Today I welcome to the family the key blank knife with the long nail file (LF&C #1210). I have owned the key blank knife with the short nail file (LF&C #1220) for longer than I've been married and in July we are celebrating #30 so the eluding has been going on for quite some time. Once I had a lead on one, it was mine

Anyway, here they both are in all their glory with the newest edition on the left in the photos: Nail files side-by-side in the middle
Mark side of both knives
Key blanks removed

LF&C made 2 models of key blank knives however each of them could have been ordered to fit either a Yale or a Russwin lock by adding an "R" to the model number (i.e., #1210R or #1220R) making the SKU count 4. I do believe that based on the 3rd photo above I have a key blank for each key manufacturer although I don't know which is which. Can I get any opinions on the matter?

The hunt would not have been possible without the aid of my 1931 LF&C Sectional Catalog: where page 101 is completely dedicated to the key blank knives: I'm fairly confident that I'll never find the other 2 knives with the opposite key blanks so I'm declaring victory!

Congrats on the find, Tom! Looks good!

tvic wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:10 pm Congrats on the find, Tom! Looks good!

thanks Tim - I agree!

Interesting knives Tom! I have one almost identical made by Robeson; the difference being a pen secondary blade instead of a file. The bail is stamped, '' PAT. MAY 13, 1924 ''.
Which brings up an interesting question: Did Robeson possibly make these for L.F.&C ? I say this because according to Levine, L.F.&C. didn't make pocket knives but bought H.&B. in1913 and they made them until about 1931.
Knowing how companies would contract out work, I wonder if this was the case here. The 1924 patent date could indicate Robeson may have owned the patent. Just speculating.

Case single clip blade 107 club knife family group

Daggers; double edge & single edge.

Exquisite! J.O'.

A few more.

knife7knut wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:42 pm Some more sub-collections:
Fruit knives;silver & pearl handled.
Pearl handled various patterns.
Ivory, bone, & celluloid handles.
Miniature knives.

Amazing! A collection after my own heart. These are my favorite knives to collect!

Here's my favorite thing to collect. Miniature knives and odd knives. A decent amount so far, but only been collecting for a couple years.
Part 1

Here's Part 2... so far. Just picked up about 20 more that aren't in these pictures yet.

beresman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:20 pm Well, I have a collection of folding knives from different countries around the world, with about 60 countries represented.

I also have a collection/accumulation of pearl handled knives, by manufacturer/tang stamp. I don't want to think about how many of those I have...

I have a small accumulation of knives that I have re-handled/refurbished.

I have a collection of pen knives/"Gentleman's knives", mostly just things that interested me at the time.

I have an accumulation of older knives with (possibly) some historical significance.

Here are some of the collection from different countries.

1. From USA, Canada, El Salvador, Mexico, Cuba, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Panama and Scotland

2. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium & England

3. Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, (West) Germany, GDR, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary & Poland

4. Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia (USSR), Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania & Lithuania

5. Greece, Crete, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel & Morocco

6. Turkey, Pakistan, India & Tibet

7. Hong Kong, Cambodia, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Philippines & Thailand

I couldn't believe it when I saw your bird knives. i picked this one up at an antique store in Minnesota and didn't know there were others out there! I'll be looking for more information now.

Absolutely spectacular, Rey, many of which are after my own exact taste,
What is the cutout/square dark area above the tang, on the knife 2nd from the right in your 1st picture on the "A few more" page, or in other words, the only knife with the clip-point blade? Thx!

Pretty cool accumulation so far, MU-12345, you have some fairly unusual knives in there, and to AAPK!
Keep em' comin'!

MrUgly, that is an unusual, but neat collection of knives! Welcome to AAPK!

Mark, I was commenting the same time you were, hence nearly the same comment.

Madmarco wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:35 am Absolutely spectacular, Rey, many of which are after my own exact taste,
What is the cutout/square dark area above the tang, on the knife 2nd from the right in your 1st picture on the "A few more" page, or in other words, the only knife with the clip-point blade? Thx!

A reflection of the camera/phone.

MU, you have a wonderfully interesting collection.

MrUgly12345 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:32 am

I couldn't believe it when I saw your bird knives. i picked this one up at an antique store in Minnesota and didn't know there were others out there! I'll be looking for more information now.

They come from the Jezzine area of Lebanon, as I understand it. After I got my first of these I also discovered several other implements with the same kind of design. None of them have the movable wings, though, as the pocket knives do. I especially like the dagger (which I use as a letter opener).

beresman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:33 pm They come from the Jezzine area of Lebanon, as I understand it. After I got my first of these I also discovered several other implements with the same kind of design. None of them have the movable wings, though, as the pocket knives do. I especially like the dagger (which I use as a letter opener).

Thanks for the great information! Very helpful. Wouldn't have known the wings were moveable if you didn't mention it. I was afraid to do much to it because the blade looks so frail and the knife in general looks fragile.

Amazing bird knives!!