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Great knife!

Eleven months between posts to this thread and you revived it in a big way.

Great knife.

Charlie

FRJ wrote:"Pretty nice".
I don't know, John. Some of those matchstrike hoozies aren't quite even.

Actually, I'd go with downright beautiful.

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Eleven months between posts to this thread and you revived it in a big way.

Great knife.

Charlie

Thank you all for the comments. Charlie, I was surprised to see how long it had been since someone posted a new to them NYK knife.

Joe, thanks for pointing out those uneven matchstrike hoozies, I'll have to get rid of the knife now

John that is as good as they come!!

Harold

John that is one gorgeous NYK EO jack and what outstanding condition

Duffer wrote:John that is one gorgeous NYK EO jack and what outstanding condition

I agree with Lloyd, its a keeper!

Hey there John
Again- My friend that is outstanding!

Just curious and totally serious, is "hoozies" a traditional name for the indentations in a match-strike pull?

Charlie Noyes

John:

What is the closed length of that Easy-Opener?

The size and elaborateness of the shield seem to announce that it is a really big deal -- my guess is at least 3 3/4 inch.

Very nice "benchmark" piece.

Great knife John! Congrats.

All the accolades are deserved John. You’ve done it once more.

John, that looks amazing. Great score!

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Just curious and totally serious, is "hoozies" a traditional name for the indentations in a match-strike pull?
Charlie Noyes

No, Charlie, I was just poking John with a bit of fun.

Probably should be spelled "whozees". It's like "whatzees" only different.

I thought that was the case, but I asked because the vernacular of the old time cutlers could be quite different and colorful.

Charlie

stumpstalker wrote:John:

What is the closed length of that Easy-Opener?

The size and elaborateness of the shield seem to announce that it is a really big deal -- my guess is at least 3 3/4 inch.

Very nice "benchmark" piece.

You are close, it is 3 5/8", nice size for a jack. I did leave out that there is a pattern number, 2563, stamped on back of main tang.

Thank you all for the comments, for me the best part of this knife is the sharp etch, so hard to find on knives this old.

John, you did the right thing hitting the BIN button. I sent the seller an offer on that knife and the KA-BAR and in the twenty minutes it took the seller to answer me you had already purchased the NYK which was the best in the lot. Very nice knife and a great price!!

Gunsil wrote:John, you did the right thing hitting the BIN button. I sent the seller an offer on that knife and the KA-BAR and in the twenty minutes it took the seller to answer me you had already purchased the NYK which was the best in the lot. Very nice knife and a great price!!

Thanks, I got the Schrade easy open with a best offer but when this one popped up the following morning I decided to just do the BIN although I was tempted to do an offer, looks like I made the right decision for a change.

Did you get thr KaBar? That looked to be a very nice knife also.

Good thing you didn't hesitate like I did!! Yes, I got the KA-BAR, but when it arrived it had been pretty heavily cleaned, the photos weren't that good. But it is a harness jack and I had never seen one by KA-BAR before so I did keep it. He is slowly dropping the prices on the others he has.

New York pearl campaign knife,etched McKinley & Roosevelt.

I just discovered this thread and I'm glad I did...some very cool knives being shown here.

I've admired New York knives from afar for a long time. These two are the only ones I've managed to acquire (so far).
~Q~

I think this is the only NYKC knife that I have. It has issues, but it is a family heirloom and I don't want to mess around with it.

Here is a NYKC locked back folding hunter (pattern no. 187) I recently acquired. I have been on the look out for one for several years. Although these are seen for sale somewhat regularly especially on EBay finding one with a full blade and not heavily used/sharpened can be daunting. This one although certainly not pristine has a full blade. I have two other (obviously NYKC manufactured) examples that are branded OVB Spencer Hibbard Bartlett & Co. and the other a Zenith Marshall Wells Hardware Co.

This NYKC example is in excellent used but not abused condition, has no cracks or splits in the pick bone handles (that I can see even under magnification) and tight lockup. The pick bone handles are especially interesting to me. This, I believe, is representative of an earlier made knife. It also does not have the arm-and -hammer logo/trademark that you see on many NYKC knives. My guess is this knife is pre circa 1910. The Biddle Hardware Co. Catalog of 1908 page 900 of the NYKC section shows this knife with pick bone handles in the artist rendering. The mark side tang stamp looks to be the same although the one in the catalog has four pins and mine has five. The other two I mentioned earlier, have bone handles that are more a divot style jigged bone and may have, as some have suggested, been produced using the George Schrade jigging machine (patent granted 1925).

Lloyd, great knives, would be happy to have just one of them in the collection much less 3.

Thanks John—I appreciate your nice comments!!

Duffer wrote:Here is a NYKC locked back folding hunter (pattern no. 187) I recently acquired. I have been on the look out for one for several years. Although these are seen for sale somewhat regularly especially on EBay finding one with a full blade and not heavily used/sharpened can be daunting. This one although certainly not pristine has a full blade. I have two other (obviously NYKC manufactured) examples that are branded OVB Spencer Hibbard Bartlett & Co. and the other a Zenith Marshall Wells Hardware Co.

This NYKC example is in excellent used but not abused condition, has no cracks or splits in the pick bone handles (that I can see even under magnification) and tight lockup. The pick bone handles are especially interesting to me. This, I believe, is representative of an earlier made knife. It also does not have the arm-and -hammer logo/trademark that you see on many NYKC knives. My guess is this knife is pre circa 1910. The Biddle Hardware Co. Catalog of 1908 page 900 of the NYKC section shows this knife with pick bone handles in the artist rendering. The mark side tang stamp looks to be the same although the one in the catalog has four pins and mine has five. The other two I mentioned earlier, have bone handles that are more a divot style jigged bone and may have, as some have suggested, been produced using the George Schrade jigging machine (patent granted 1925).

Beauty Lloyd ... this style reminds me also of the Miller Bros Hunter that had a large german silver rear bolster and jigged bone handles ... Don’t hesitate to put your “stunner” in the Tradional Hunters thread which needs a wake up