All About Pocket Knives

Here are Three Buster Warenski Bowies and a Draper. Photos do not do them justice.. I will have a friend do some professional photos and show them again.

Dave...............................have you been holding out on us! Just awesome!


I was in Draper's neck of the woods a couple of times and never got over there to meet them, my loss!

Mossdancer wrote:I do not disagree with your premise, would be a heck of a job with the peened Pommel. Either that or it was intentional and the knife was meant to be used upside down.
EDIT: After looking at it a bit the guard could not be turned upside down as that would put the handle carrier facing down. The guard would have to be rotated 180 degrees with the same result of moving the proper guard end in place for protecting the hand from slipping forward onto the blade.
moss

Makes you wonder why, though, doesn't it?

heres one i really fond of 13 1/2 inches overall queen city tang stamp this is stamped #07 there was supposed to be 30 made but i was told they only ended up making 20 because of the length of stag , bought mine a few years ago reasonable, seen one of its sisters go through ebay a couple of months ago for over $400

Those Warenski's and Draper are nice, it is unfortunate they are beyond my knife budget. Now, the Queen just might be affordable for me. It is nice.
moss

Troy: you have nailed the middle part of your location

Here's my biggest (a 14" Winchester bowie) and smallest (tiny 1 blade folder with Japan stamped on the tang), with a dollar bill and dime for scale. Just wish the Winchester box didn't have "China" printed on it but that's how it goes.

I posted this one before, it's just a new replacement of my old childhood's Sicilian Boy Scout Knife. It is 15" in overall length.

A real bonding experience with Dad. Of course, being a younger boy I wanted the latest and greatest. But Dad wanted it to be a learning experience, and insisted on just buying me the small one.

Nice manicure tools folks.
moss

Just found one that could be fun if any one else is interested. It is marked on sheath and blade.
Widder made in West Germany. "Original Bowie Knife", Have had several of these over the years
and with the exception of a few they are generally well made. I thought at first that West Germany would have meant after the Berlin wall was erected but know I found and will post the following---- West Germany, from 1949 to 1990, a republic consisting of the western two-thirds of what is now Germany. West Germany was created in 1949 when the United States, Great Britain, and France consolidated those zones, or portions, of Germany that they had occupied at the end of World War II.----Berlin Wall - The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the East German government erected the Berlin Wall in order to keep its citizens from fleeing to the West. For 28 years, the Berlin Wall -----.
I checked on ebay placing "Original Bowie Knife" in quotes to isolate things down a bit. Came up with the following----ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE ANTON WINGEN JR SOLINGEN GERMANY

Vintage Sabre "Original Bowie Knife" w/Sheath 631 Japan

EDGE BRAND Original Bowie Knife Solingen Germany Stag
Expedited shipping available



Original Bowie Knife # 171 - German Sabre Solingen

PUMA Genuine Stag Original BOWIE Knife Germany 116396

Original Bowie Knife bayonet

10 INCH ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE LEATHER HANDLE JAPAN BLADE

Original Bowie Knife* with a Sheath and marked Solingen

Vintage 'Original Bowie' combat knife + sheath.

VINTAGE ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE 111 - SOLINGEN GERMANY

Pocket Knife / Original Bowie Knife / MM3-72

Puma Original Bowie Knife Stag Hand Made Knives Custom

*Original Bowie Knife* w/Sheath Solingen Germany 12" NR

"Original Bowie Knife", Sabre Japan 631, W/ Case, NR

OLD Bone Handled Clip Point Bowie Knife. 13" long NR------------------------
COULD BE AN IMPORTANT KNIFE--------------------------------

Original Bowie Knife with Sheath - Marked Solingen

Puma “Original Bowie” Knife w/Sheath, 1960 Stag, No Res

ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE WITH SHEATH

Stag Handle "Original Bowie Knife" made in Japan

New Puma Original Bowie Knife Staghorn Handmade

EDGEMARK SOLINGEN ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE "MINT"

LINDER MESSER ORIGINAL BOWIE KNIFE "MINT"

Vintage Original Bowie Knife w/Sheath


Puma Stag Handle Original Bowie Knife

Original Bowie Knife and Sheath

Original Bowie Knife 469 with Sheath

Hoffritz Original Bowie Knife 6 inch blade

NIB 9" Original Bowie Hunting Knife W/ Leather Sheath

Cheetah Original Bowie Knife 15" PA2858

BEAUTIFUL PUMA Original Bowie Knife 116396 German Made

This I think is one of the fun things about knives. Some of the darn things do get rather spendy. The one about two thirds of the way through that I marked with some Bars after both lines was especially great. The seller says it could be an important knife and it had old as opposed to new rust on the blade. If you noticed the different names you will not see a WIDDER in the list so I guess mine must be rare. I told my buddy I bought it from that it must be a really old knife being the Original and all, My gosh could have been from only a few years after the Sandbar duel where it is somewhat excepted that Jim the Bowie used the first one to dispatch a fella who was about to kill him. If the handle was bone instead of wood it could have been "Sandbar Stag". Aint it amazing how that term is not used much anymore.

Mossdancer, According to legend Bowie used his knife..... blade up. Parried with the swedge and supposedly had a brass cover over spine to catch and slow down the opponents blade edge.

buck16:
Thanks for the info. My previous post was somewhat tongue in cheek. Your premise of use with blade upside down makes the knife I posted back a page or two become more viable.
moss

Here are four of the hunter style from Gerber. The Bottom is a Big Hunter, the second and third up are Magnum Hunters. The top is an Abercrombie and Fitch Hunter. The first made for hunters made and sold by A & F. This example is truly in rough condition but considering they only produced something over 325 of them in two years of production 1947 and 1948 you take what you can get. This is the only one I have ever seen for sale and the blade was in pieces. I had a Jeweler weld it back together and she did a fine job. I have carefully considered the roughness of the blade and there is just not enough left to refinish and have any profile integrity left. You can see that the blade is a long clip and the other three are straight back edge. The A&F will be identified by the patent number of the Lamb Handle(about 1945) on the bottom and the Gerber and A&F on either side. Gerber lost the right for use of handle in 1951 in a court proceeding. Gerber-10 indicates the knifes year as 1948.

Very interesting, and a great group of knives, Moss. Thanks.

I just got this great machete made by Collins, right here in old Connecticut.
Their old factory is still there. I go by it every once in a while.
22 inch blade.

Good Looking Collins. Nice to have the leather with it.
moss

Thanks Moss,
it could use a little clean up. The blade and the leather.

Nice one Joe

Machete`s don`t get much respect in the knife collecting world

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No they don't, and I guess I can see why. They're pretty much straight forward beaters.
I wanted this one because it's from Collinsville, Connecticut. Just up the road. And it had the leather sheath, and it was big. It needs some care.
Iron hoarder had some really sharp looking Collins', and I have seen others that have a real nice looking line to them. I don't mind being around machetes.
Thanks D.

Got one of those that has been used pretty hard. Still going strong.

Damned good steel in those things.

This one was made in Guatamala. I have read about Collins' Connecticut works, but I don't know any thing about Collins' South American Manufacturing.
But it is a big assed knife. That's what I was looking for.

aquired this big'un a few weeks back 3$'s at a yard sale, going to attatch this years buck horn to the handle for the away handle is split OHya it's a WESTERN,USA,W49,B=1978.WE'LL BE YAHOOING it in the back woods of Maine in November

Nice w49 garddogg56;
Picked up some grist for the mill yesterday, here is a big'un and it's counterpoint. Should you ever run across a PABU at a sale at a price grab it. Their specialty is the BaliSong. They make a fine cutter also, The bitty Ken Ward is just cool and great workmanship. moss

A few big boy's...two from Mike Maliosh and one by Bill Miller...forged O1 and ready to chop...

Beautiful, Bob!

Big enough?


Ugly enough. LOL