All About Pocket Knives

Lee, The bird hook has a long shaft for reaching into the birds cavity. Button hooks typically have a short shaft, the length of a pen blade.

Thanks Dan, Dimitri Lee, Bill, Roger and Barry. It was super stiff opening everything but they are starting to loosen up a bit.

Frank Buster and Pal Cut Co.

Very nice IM, really like the Pal, thanks for sharing.

The knife itself isn't that rare,but with "St.Louis World's Fair"etch,I'm guessing there ain't too many floating around.

Roger that is very nice and with that blade etch has to be super rare! Does it work?

It does!

Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

That small PB hunter with the fair etch is great …. I want it here's my set from the WF 1904

BWT wrote:Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

Nice Bill ... I do believe it is horn ... Side note - Interestingly I have recently read about blond tortoise shell (from the underbelly shell of a tortoise) but have never seen a knife handle use it - that would be the only other thing those handles could be but again never have seen it used and only bringing up blond tortoise shell as an aside... I truly doubt this handle is blond tortoise and would bet the house on horn

wiseguy wrote:That small PB hunter with the fair etch is great …. I want it here's my set from the WF 1904

Cool old set wiseguy ...

wiseguy wrote:That small PB hunter with the fair etch is great …. I want it here's my set from the WF 1904

Very nice Wiseguy, program, knife, and photo.

Thanks Lee for the info.

BWT wrote:Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

That is a beautiful little knife, Bill.
Looks like the bolsters took a little rubbing; Glad they left that blade alone.

FRJ wrote:

BWT wrote:Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

That is a beautiful little knife, Bill.
Looks like the bolsters took a little rubbing; Glad they left that blade alone.

Thanks Joe, I oiled the spring and wiped the bolsters with mothers mag polish.

BWT wrote:Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

I really like splotchy character in a scale and the horn does that. I like the colors too, reminds me of Apaloosa bone, and a cool looking knife. Congrats.

Thanks IM for the comments!!

BWT wrote:Harrison Brothers and Howson, I believe horn handles??? Any help with that will be appreciated!!

Very nice Bill

Definitely horn handles

wiseguy wrote:That small PB hunter with the fair etch is great …. I want it here's my set from the WF 1904

Nice collection

Love seeing the paper with the knives!

Thanks Dimitri, I really like the handles. I have a George Woodhead with very similar handles, they just have that old look.

I think this fits here ...old and rare model 118 Mechanics Jack

That knife has some great blades, wiseguy, who made it?

Great looking knife, love those kind of bones, and bet that old steel is sweet. EZ too. Great one.

George Schrade's Press Button Knife Co. 1892 to 1923 its an Automatic

FRJ wrote:That knife has some great blades, wiseguy, who made it?

Thanks, wiseguy, it's a real beauty.