All About Pocket Knives

Here is a very nice swell center, pearl whittler. 3 1/16".

Thos. J. Bowler, Chicago ......... hardware firm.
Goins gives this a one year date: 1922.
I'm guessing/hoping NYK made.

Joe, beautiful old MOP Whittler I am very attracted and intrigued by the Whittler pattern and the intricacy and challenge of the build for the cutler! This one being almost a centenarian adds to the mystique of this example. Wonderfully staged and photographed by the way Lloyd

Nice one Joe, not sure who made it but definitely a rare stamp

Tom

Joe your collection of pearls is fabulous and just gets better by the day. That's beautiful whittler and rare stamp to boot.

Thank you, Lloyd, Tom and Greg for the nice comments.

Great old knife Joe! Probably my favorite pattern - swell center balloon end whittler. Something about them just appeals to me.

Ken

Thanks Ken.
It is a elegant pattern to be sure. And though it is small, it is a very strong knife. Quite solid and quite snappy.

A+ Joe.

Thank you, Roger.

I seem to recall a discussion re' Schatt and Morgan from a while back that included the information that S&M issued their first catalog with the illustrated knives having a Gowanda, N.Y. stamp, but that they actually relocated before such knives were ever produced.

That premise would make the Schatt above quite rare, because it certainly does looks genuine.

We need David Clark to opine here.

Charlie Noyes

RobesonsRme.com wrote:I seem to recall a discussion re' Schatt and Morgan from a while back that included the information that S&M issued their first catalog with the illustrated knives having a Gowanda, N.Y. stamp, but that they actually relocated before such knives were ever produced.

That premise would make the Schatt above quite rare, because it certainly does looks genuine.

We need David Clark to opine here.

Charlie Noyes

Here is another Gowanda Schatt & Morgan. It is just 2 1/2 " closed. I believe David has a number of these Gowanda S & M's as well. He has a great article in Knife magazine this month. He is quite the Historian!!

Tom

Guess I remembered incorrectly.

And Goins lists the stamp and as I recall (dangerous these days) he only includedstampshe hadactually seen.

Charlie

From what I gather Charlie they are really rare. Of course if anyone would have the the rare S&M's, it would be David. I doubt anyone has the knowledge on this brand that he does

Tom

Posting an old original Honk Falls bone made in Napanoch NY. It seems you see 10 fakes for every real one. This one is authentic.

Thanks for looking


Tom

olderdogs1 wrote:Posting an old original Honk Falls bone made in Napanoch NY. It seems you see 10 fakes for every real one. This one is authentic.

Thanks for looking


Tom

Tom I agree on both.

Nice Honk, those are tough to come by.

Here is an old Washington Cutlery Co. Milwaukee. 1898 - 1902.
Not well stamped.

nice knives,

here is
J. DUNLAP
GERMANY

Nice knife, cato.

I'm new to this forum but wanted to post an odd one that I have.

Welcome Judstuff.
That is a good looking knife you have there.
I can't tell who made it.

Sorry for the bad picture. It is a Coquanoc Works from Philadelphia.

Jud, your Coquanoc saddlehorn knife is very nice. I'm not familiar with the marking, but I can tell it's a fine old knife with beautiful old stag and a well cared for blade.

Welcome to AAPK

Beautiful Coquanoc Works Juddstuff! That is stunning stag and a nice spey blade. How long is it closed? It looks to be a speying knife. Goins' lists the date as 1876.

Nice knife.

I think Dimitri has posted a Coquanoc knife before.

Charlie Noyes