All About Pocket Knives

The first one is a lockblade, 5 1/2 closed, 9 3/8 open. Its actually very clean and tight with one miner crack at the bottom pin. Its stamped Ulster Knife Co. N.Y. in three straight lines. I know Ulster dates way back in the mid to late 1800's to around 196O? Can anybody kind off date when they built this type of lockblade,,,,,i'm guessing around 1890-1910????? Does anybody know for sure? This knife has swedges that run from the tip to the tang on both sides.

The next knife is a brute! Its a 5 1/4 inch saddlehorn and is a inch thick! Heck the shield is 1 7/8" long. This knife is Old, the blades and nail nicks and swedges appear to be hand ground. All i can read from a combination of looking at both tangs is that UNION is probably the first word, then its unreadable and that NA???T??CK C? is on the botton. The ????? are simply letters that i cant make out or there gone.

Rig,

The Ulster looks to be from the 1876-1920 era.

The Union Knife Co. Naugatuck Conn. was in business from1851-1885.


Both are very nice old knives!


M.B.

Thanks MB,
Your thinking what i was thinking on the Ulster, But I didnt have a clue on the other knife! I had Kabar on the brain, but Olean NY. just wasnt fitting in with what letters i could read. Its going to be the oldest knife i have then 1851-1885 makes my Case Bros. and W.R.Case knives look new. But kidding aside, i knew she was old and possible from the Civil War era, I just couldnt figure out what brand she was.