All About Pocket Knives

That Empire is just EXQUISITE! Love all the posts on here but that one is a stand out!

Here's a couple more. Well, OK, maybe five.

Case pens.

Here is an Aerial with long pulls on both blades and Aerial's patented clear coated Celluloid handles.

galvanic1882 wrote:Empire

Absolutely gorgeous.

A couple more.

1. C. Y. & Co.
2. Walter Bros.

So many nice knives posted as this thread rolls on ...

I can't even comment on all but thanks for joining the party Ray (K7Knut) and sharing all those pens - quite an awesome variety I knew you would be along soon

Nice knives Bruce and Railsplitter - thanks for sharing those classic beauties

galvanic1882 wrote:Empire

- Mike - all beautiful knives you posted for sure - but that Empire is an awesome spectacle of a knife - The way the blades are shaped to contour with the swell-center and ballon bolsters is really cool (and the spring must also contour with the frame), and tortoise shell (maybe celluloid but my guess is tortoise - hard to tell without an upclose look sometimes) is way over the top!!! Just plain awesome!! I keep copying back to it to just stare and .. BTW - what is the closed length of that knife??

Joe and Dave - Keep on rocking' and sharing so many beauties

This thread is just pure "eye candy" and I am enjoying it more than you can imagine Thanks to all for sharing and contributing!!

I've got a couple of Robseon's that fit here. First is a sleeveboard 622102 at 3 5/8 long with jigged bone handles. This one didn't seemuch pocket time as the jigging is still very fresh. The second is a senator at 2.75 inches with ebony handles and some blade wear but snappy as heck. Can't believe I cut myself writin' this.

Great idea for a thread LB!

And I found this Keen Kutter:

Here's an old Standard.

Here's an old Northfield.

Lots of nice knives showing up here.

Here's four Cases'.

Beautiful Robesons, Steve. That sleeveboard is really nice!

Joe, those Cases are sweet!

Here are a couple more cloisonne Bokers.

Those are gorgeous Dave!

A lot of beautiful pens being shown, thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Steve!

Those are 3 more nice cloisonne Bokers Dave - guess Boker must have had a whole line of those knives with different handles... based on the tang stamp is there a clue to the dating of these??

Thanks, Lee. It's actually only two knives. The last two pictures are of one knife, front and back. Though getting a double-sided cloisonne knife does feel like you're getting a 2-for-1 deal!

It's a bit hard to narrow down the age. According to Goins', the tang stamp on these was used from 1869 to 1914. However, the knife with the white fleur-de-lis on a blue background has sterling silver handles. That makes it easy to date since Germany required year of manufacture be marked on all silver products. In this case, the knife was made in 1907. Assuming Boker made cloisonne-handled knives in a relatively small window of time, then the other knives would probably date to the early 1900's as well, but it's just an educated guess.

Now that is pretty interesting Dave ... I thought for sure it was 3 different knives ... the only other knives I have seen with a completely different handle cover on mark and pile sides were salesman samples. I have seen an example where there was a completely different handle cover on the mark side vs the pile side but it was so the salesman could show on a single knife the choices for handles... on your 2 other Bokers that have cloisonne handles I assume the mark and pile sides were the same?

I've seen some pictures of those salesman's samples before. They are certainly very cool knives. The previous two cloisonne knives I've already shown don't have any design on the pile side, it's just metal without any decoration. But it's not uncommon for cloisonne-handled knives to have different designs on each side. I've seen quite a few like this, mostly German-made ones. The last two cloisonne Bokers I have have designs on both sides. Might as well post them now.

Very nice knives, Dave.

Thanks, Joe.

Nice additional Bokers Dave interesting about those handles as I never would have known some only had the cloisonne on only one side...

Here's another and one of my favorites -

Waterville Swell-Center Pen - (3 & 1/2") - Grooved ballon bolsters and aged natural handle covers ... Waterville/Co stamp in arc ... think the master is a sheep foot blade - this one to me just has that nice aged vintage look and a decent size at 3 & 1/2"..

Lee, what a great old knife!
That thing has every thing going for it. Congrats!!

Thanks Joe ... I have had it awhile and been wanting to share photos - just never had the chance ....

Classy, beautiful knife Lee. Besides that, I've always been a sucker for swell-center patterns.

Ken

Thanks Ken - much appreciated ....

Samoa