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IXL, "oil the joints" era. Appears to be horn scales, couple of small repairs on the back scale.
Slanted bolsters, neat lil shield.


Blades in pretty decent shape



Interesting springs

That is a "great" looking knife!! I love the scales...

hey bro nice looking piece.

my guess is its celluloid. not positive of course.

any takers??

last picture shows shrinking where scales meet the front bolsters.
at least thats what it appears to look like
to me.

Get the old loupe out and look for the pores.
If I am not mistaken, IXL used some of each on their knives. This is a relatively costly pattern so I will bet on horn.

Ray

Looks like cell from here....... cool knife.

Willie,

Nice knife!

It`s an Equal-End Whittler, with a punch blade.

Many different pattern whittlers came with punch blades, but they are not very common to find today.

The handles appear to be Patterned Celluloid.


M.B.

Upon closer examination, I think it is probably celluloid. I scraped the repairs and lo and behold, the price just went up. They weren't repairs at all. It scraped off and the scales are perfect under whatever it was that was stuck to them.

Got that lil darlin for $15.01 and freight.

Probably sharpen it up and carry it for a spell.

hey Wullie, want to double yer money?

johnnierotten wrote:hey Wullie, want to double yer money?

LOL thanks for the offer, I'm gonna use this one for what it was designed for. A POCKET KNIFE!!

Yep....that'll make a great EDC!!........ you definitely gotta keeper there.

Nice Cattle Knife, O.W! Built with wedged backsprings, and slanted bolsters, it is a class act.
I'm with the celluloid people, and a great pattern it is; never seen it before!
I call it a Cattle knife because it is
a) equal end, like the majority of cattle knives, and
b) because it has a spey blade.
But I think we all agree it is a wonderful pocketknife!!