Pooouussha da button and out it comes..........sometimes....
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 7:15 pm
In the midst of re-photographing my,"knife accumulation" I came to the drawer of automatic and wannabe automatic knives and decided to post a few pictures.
Most of these were acquired either from friends or police officers I've known through the years.Some are German;some Italian;and others of unknown lineage.There are some unique ones in the pile:A two blade Schrade that came to me from a friend who found it in his grandmother's sewing box after she passed away.He remembered her using it to cut thread and it came with a small chamois sheath as well as never having been sharpened and grooves worn into the scales from thread being dragged across them.
An Othello gravity knife given to me by a friend who found it inside a wall of the Salem(Massachusetts)Witch Museum when they were doing renovations.
A small gold pull ball switchblade marked Jewelry Cutlery & Novelty Co with file teeth cut into both sides of the blade.
A non automatic Italian style with two blades(a short stiletto blade and what looks like a short rope blade)and horn scales.
A huge horn scaled navaja style with brass bolsters,shotshell extractors on the front bolsters,and a top lock release.
A newer cigarette lighter with an OTF blade and a mini-Italian style with a ball point pen for a blade.
Blade types are spear point;clip,and even a couple keris style.Scales are horn;stag and even sheephorn as well as plastic.
So without further ado here are the pictures.It will take at least two posts to picture all of them.
Most of these were acquired either from friends or police officers I've known through the years.Some are German;some Italian;and others of unknown lineage.There are some unique ones in the pile:A two blade Schrade that came to me from a friend who found it in his grandmother's sewing box after she passed away.He remembered her using it to cut thread and it came with a small chamois sheath as well as never having been sharpened and grooves worn into the scales from thread being dragged across them.
An Othello gravity knife given to me by a friend who found it inside a wall of the Salem(Massachusetts)Witch Museum when they were doing renovations.
A small gold pull ball switchblade marked Jewelry Cutlery & Novelty Co with file teeth cut into both sides of the blade.
A non automatic Italian style with two blades(a short stiletto blade and what looks like a short rope blade)and horn scales.
A huge horn scaled navaja style with brass bolsters,shotshell extractors on the front bolsters,and a top lock release.
A newer cigarette lighter with an OTF blade and a mini-Italian style with a ball point pen for a blade.
Blade types are spear point;clip,and even a couple keris style.Scales are horn;stag and even sheephorn as well as plastic.
So without further ado here are the pictures.It will take at least two posts to picture all of them.
