All About Pocket Knives

What is it about ice picks? I loved them as a kid and love them now. Used to heat them over the burner on a gas stove and use it like a wood burning pen. Mom hated the smell of burnt wood. Great pick ups Dave.

Scott I'm trying very hard, but this was all of today's haul.

Pretty good haul, David! Ain't nobody goin' to catch up with Scott.
I see a couple of interesting Trappers in the haul.
Treefarmer

dlr110 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:52 am Scott I'm trying very hard, but this was all of today's haul.

Nice lot David. I was immediately drawn to the Coca Cola knife.

dlr110 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:52 am Scott I'm trying very hard, but this was all of today's haul.
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Good stuff, David. Nice haul!

Ray

treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:27 am Pretty good haul, David! Ain't nobody goin' to catch up with Scott.
I see a couple of interesting Trappers in the haul.
Treefarmer

The trapper leaning on the sheath says Winchester on the shield and is etched on the spay blade. It has no tang mark on either blade.

The barrel has a cartoon of a hillbilly moonshiner on the side and that is a Rough Rider trapper moonshiner. To top it off that is a mini flask hanging from the blade. They both fit in the barrel. Also that same cartoon is etched on the main blade. This trip I found a lot of different knives.

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 3:27 am

dlr110 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:52 am Scott I'm trying very hard, but this was all of today's haul.

Nice lot David. I was immediately drawn to the Coca Cola knife.

You and me both, I barely saw it under something else. What surprised me was the Utica stamp on it. I guess I have some research and learning in store for me.

dlr110 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:52 am Scott I'm trying very hard, but this was all of today's haul.
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Knice haul pal!!!

djknife13 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 10, 2020 11:49 pm Antique shops find today. ebony HS&B serp. jack that I can't wait to clean up, a Cam.long line Delrin camper, a pearl serp. double end pen 22163, a Stevenson military, all metal, a slick black Boker that was camera shy and hid in my pocket until I was posting the picture and a few other non knife things.____Dave

Kniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Dave!

Thanks guys. The ice picks are for ice dam removal from roofs and aren't sold in hardware stores any more, only antique shops. Snow melts up on the roof from heat loss through the insulation and refreezes when it hits the cold overhang and causes a dam. The melted snow then backs up like a mini-lake and starts dripping out the soffit and eventually into the ceiling causing damage and if not corrected soon enough, dangerous mold. The picks remove it quicker and with less shingle damage than anything we've found so far. Some contractors use steam machines and charge hundreds of dollars per hour. We can do a pretty heavily iced up roof usually in a few hours for way, way less. Back to knives, I spent about an hour with a No.2 pencil and metal polish on the 5 knives and they don't much resemble the picture I posted. I'll shoot another picture when it gets light out. ____Dave

Well Dave, ice dams are something I know nothing about but that makes sense. I don't think a Florida boy would last too long in the Far North country.
Treefarmer

My memory of ice picks goes back over 60 years when a few people still had an 'ice box' type of fridge. Blocks of ice were cut from the river during winter and stored covered with hay bales. The 'ice man' had a horse drawn cart and would travel the lanes delivering blocks of ice. While ice man was busying hauling a block to a house we would run to the back of his cart, lift up the tarp and use the ice pick he left there to chip off pieces of ice to suck on during a hot July day.
kj

kootenay joe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:40 pm My memory of ice picks goes back over 60 years when a few people still had an 'ice box' type of fridge. Blocks of ice were cut from the river during winter and stored covered with hay bales. The 'ice man' had a horse drawn cart and would travel the lanes delivering blocks of ice. While ice man was busying hauling a block to a house we would run to the back of his cart, lift up the tarp and use the ice pick he left there to chip off pieces of ice to suck on during a hot July day.
kj

Great story Roland.

Lecanto FL Stokes Flea Market today...

TripleF wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:13 pm Lecanto FL Stokes Flea Market today...

Scott, you are really stocking up these days. You must have a secondary market, as you are not listing a very small percentage of what you are finding.

Great work!

Tony_Wood wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:21 pm

TripleF wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:13 pm Lecanto FL Stokes Flea Market today...

Scott, you are really stocking up these days. You must have a secondary market, as you are not listing a very small percentage of what you are finding.

Great work!

Shhhhhhhhhhh....you gone give away my secret!!! LOL.
Find em and flip 'em!!!

I cleaned up a couple of the knives I picked up the other day and added the Boker I missed on the other picture I posted. I got the serp. HS&B for $6 and the Catt. pearl was marked 33% off from it's price of $10. I got my money's worth just cleaning them up.____Dave

djknife13 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:25 am I cleaned up a couple of the knives I picked up the other day and added the Boker I missed on the other picture I posted. I got the serp. HS&B for $6 and the Catt. pearl was marked 33% off from it's price of $10. I got my money's worth just cleaning them up.____Dave

Very nice!!

Dave, I'm going to send you some money to buy the ones you don't want! You do well.

Lookin' real good, Dave!

Dave, what is the large Equal End jack with clip blade ?
kj

djknife13 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:25 am I cleaned up a couple of the knives I picked up the other day and added the Boker I missed on the other picture I posted. I got the serp. HS&B for $6 and the Catt. pearl was marked 33% off from it's price of $10. I got my money's worth just cleaning them up.____Dave

Reeeeeeeeeeeal knice Dave!!!

Found these ( Blur, LINK, Auto by Kershaw) and the CRKT at my fav pawn shop earlier today!!

kootenay joe wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:55 pm Dave, what is the large Equal End jack with clip blade ?
kj

It's a HS&B serpentine jack. Sorry my picture isn't better.____Dave

O.K. thanks, i can see it now but looks to have less curve than usual for a Serpentine pattern, or perhaps picture angle hides the curve ?.
kj

kootenay joe wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 1:40 pm My memory of ice picks goes back over 60 years when a few people still had an 'ice box' type of fridge. Blocks of ice were cut from the river during winter and stored covered with hay bales. The 'ice man' had a horse drawn cart and would travel the lanes delivering blocks of ice. While ice man was busying hauling a block to a house we would run to the back of his cart, lift up the tarp and use the ice pick he left there to chip off pieces of ice to suck on during a hot July day.
kj

KJ, I well remember the ice man delivering ice to our house east of Orlando in the late ‘40s before electricity was made available. I remember getting ice chips from the canvas bag the man used to bring the ice in for the icebox in the kitchen.
The “good ol days” without electricity, running water, A/C may not have been so good after all. We also had the “little house behind the house”, rain or shine summer and winter. I was too young to know better but I imagine mom and dad were happy when Florida Power and Light provided service down the Goldenrod Road, old state road 15A.
Y’all excuse my rambling.
Treefarmer