All About Pocket Knives

I was going to a rig in Factoryville Pa. yesterday and decided to stop at a little antique store on my way back home. I walked inside and noticed right next to the register he had a hoard of what I call cheap knives with a few Goodun's mixed in them. Well I found a nice little bone handled Robeson jack and a good gunstock budding knife with ivory swedge. Most of the stamp is worn and i Dont really know exactly what it is,,but i can read cut-co New York on the tang!

So after i picked through e'm i asked him the magical question,,, hey you got any tucked back anywhere? He said yeah, but there mostly broke or simply cheap old wooden handled knives. So he goes and gets a big box full of knives and starts dumping them out on the counter! I thought to myself Da*&%$m! He just dumped bone handled coke bottle folding hunters, whittlers and jacks out everywhere! By the time i was through i ended up with a Super Clean walnut Schatt & Morgan Cutlery Co. Titusville Pa. COTTON SAMPLER a Nice W.r. Case & Sons pruner, thats stamped PRUNER on the blade and a sweet bone handled Hammer Brand Walden New York barlow with stamped bolsters! None of the 5 knives have a cracked handle and all have full blades and good snap! I got ALL 5 for $130 bucks! I didnt even jew him a cent! Thats the price he gave me!!!!!!! Once i bought a clean green swirl W.R. Case & Sons whittler in OK city for $65 bucks,,,,i' thinking i blew that deal out-da water with the Acorns i found yesterday! If i can get a buddy to take pictures from his phone and email them too me,,i'll post them soon!

Rig

Rig, that's fantastic! That barlow especially has my interest, is it stamped with the N and arrow? That ivory tipped budding knife may well be a Schrade Cut. Co., usually came with black handles.

Eric

Rig,
You must be liv'in right. I'm always looking but never fall into these deals. You give me hope!
Paul

Shoot Rig, you are one lucky man! Send those acorns to me and I'll take you some good pics! It might take a while to get the knives back.

The grafting knife says Knife Co. N.Y not Cutlery Co. The tang stamp might say Walden, but i really cant tell,,theres not much of the letters left. The barlow is what you said, has N with a Arrow on both sides. Its the worst of the lots, pitted pretty good,,,but its cleaning up good. I'm going to be able to post pictures later today, i got the guy with the camera phone out on a rig working at the moment.

hey welder.

im in PA myself and stories like this arent common but
i have seen it happen. your haul sounds exceptional though!

PA is the spot for vintage knives!

always has been always will be!

ill email dave! {pa knives}!

Heres some pictures of the five and a Schrade Cut Co. jack with stamped bolsters i got a while back. Knives are better than the pictures!

100% AWESOME FIND BRO!!!!!!!!!!


the schatt and morgan sampler is fantastic! to see one
at all is tough.find it with almost a full blade is
probably not gonna happen again for ahwile.

all the work knives are my kinda knives!! the ivory tip on
the budding knife is always awesome!

this is way beyond any finds i have seen.
if you cant feel the envy dont worry its present.

i found a 1970s buck knife almost brand new
in the trash the other day.{CTP -CERTIFIED TRASH PICKER}
i was gonna do a post about it.
i think ill wait a little.

When i seen the sampler dump out on the table i just ignored it then casually picked her up, opened her then put her in my buying pile! Actually i thought it was a Schrade cut co. till after i paid him, then noticed it was a schatt after i got in the truck! I supposed to wear bi-focals and them little letters are hard for me to make out! What might be even better is that i'm supposed to go to his house pretty soon and look at some old anvils and table vises that hes got for sale,,,not to mention some more knives he told me he had at home!

SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!