All About Pocket Knives

Recently, this pocket knife arrived in a very large lot or group of pocket knives that I purchased. It now becomes my latest example to be added to this topic or thread and added to my general pocket cutlery collection. I did NOT buy the group to obtain this particular pocket knife. It is another COLONIAL, "FOREST-MASTER", one blade, three tools (can opener, cap lifter or bottle opener and a punch or awl), three tang stamps, 3 3/4" closed (not including the bail), camping or scout, pattern or style of pocket knife. The main blade front tang stamp says "COLONIAL (over) PROV. U.S.A." The can opener front tang stamp says "U.S.A." The cap lifter or bottle opener front tang stamp says "U.S.A." It is in VERY GOOD condition.
It needed a bit of cleaning. I took some pictures and here it is.
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eveled wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 5:50 pm I’m always drawn to the can openers on “camp knives”, mostly because they usually are an indicator of age.

Its interesting on these Forest Master knives that there were different can openers. I also was unaware of an American knife that used the Victorinox style can opener with the small screwdriver tip.

In addition to the bottle openers being different, the top one also has what looks like a pen blade in place of the awl.

I was going through my father's tools as he had previously passed away.

I glad to see that among his tool was one of these knives.

Our family had gone to a local county fair in 1974 when I was 7.

There they had a large out door claw crane attraction.

It was arranged in a rectangle with a carny guy in the center.

You put your quarter in the front of the machine and turned the crank to operate the crane's claw.

The prize was dropped into a small chute in the back left corner so that when you won a prize you had to ask the carny guy in the center to hand you your prize.

I think it was $.25, but it may have been $.10.

My dad won this knife on the cranes.

I won a large footed glass with large dimples i the side at another attraction whereas you tossed a coin across a two layered stack of glasses and won a glass if you coin managed to land in and stay in a glass. The smaller glasses required a dime to when them and the larger ones a quarter.

LOL, my parents had bought a brand new 1972 Ford Maverick for $1900 2 years before that.

For comparison, in 1970 a good paying job at a union controlled meat packing plant paid $3 and change an hour plus benefits.

Recently, this scout or camping, pattern or style of pocket knife, arrived in a group or lot of pocket knives that I bought. It now becomes my latest example to be posted under this topic or thread. I did NOT buy the group or lot of pocket knives to obtain this particular pocket knife. However, it did turn out to be a keeper and it became the latest example to be added to my general, pocket knife accumulation. It is a COLONIAL, "FOREST-MASTER", one blade, three tools (a can opener, a cap lifter or bottle opener and a punch or awl), one tang stamp, one tool stamp, 3 3/4" closed (not including the bail), scout or camping, pattern or style of pocket knife. The main blade front tang stamp says, "COLONIAL (over) PROV. U.S.A." The can opener tool, front stamp says, "U.S.A." The shield says "FOREST-MASTER" The main blade has a VERY WEAK half stop. The main blade has an OK opening snap and it has an OK closing snap. The three tools ALL open, close, and function properly. This pocket knife is in VERY GOOD condition. It did need a little cleaning. I took some pictures and here it is.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
Click on a picture to ENLARGE.

Nice full blade on that one Skip, the whole knife appears to be very lightly used.

C-WADE7 wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 12:16 pm Nice.....

Thank you, Coley.
I think this is only my third FOREST-MASTER.
But, it is definitely the nicest lking one.

I am new to this site, so forgive me if I don’t do this right:

I have recently acquired this 4-blade Colonial Forest Master. I have NOT seen this blade configuration: instead of a leather-punch, it has a small straight blade. Is this unusual?

Maybe someone ground the punch into the little blade you now see. Mike

Yes, the one I have does have 4 tools, the 4th being an awl.