All About Pocket Knives

Here's a few sparkly celluloids that have kept their shine for almost a hundred years.____Dave

DJK: Nice ones! Here's a pic I posted for Christmas a couple years ago. These are old enough, I hope, to be past any sublimation problems. J.O'.

djknife13 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:07 pm Here's a few sparkly celluloids that have kept their shine for almost a hundred years.____Dave

Beautiful!!
I love celluloid .

Nice knives, Dave and J.O'.

Here's a few.
1 Pal
2 Robesons
1 Pal
6 Imperials

Beautiful knives all!! Joe, your photo's are awesome!!

Celluloids rule! Great knives! J.O'

Thats some of the best knife photos Ive ever seen!

Here are 14 More Celluloid Knives. All from the 1920`s and 1930`s. All are Winchesters. Mike

Beautiful examples Dave, RG, Joe & DG

Here are mine.

Starting on the right with the Ivory colored Robeson, Western, Schrade, Shapleigh DE, NYK, Schrade, Schrade, Schrade, Schrade, KK & KK

Great posts, everyone!

What a great colorful post of great looking knives

Thank you for the comments.

All Winchesters, Mike, they are amazing!
Lloyd that is a beautiful showing of knives.

I have between 150 and two hundred old celluloids and store them in three knife rolls in my safe. I check them over 3 or 4 times a year for deterioration. yesterday I found one old Western Boulder has a scale pin that turned brown and I can see a couple little cracks at it's base so I removed it from storage so I can watch it more closely and so it won't affect any other knife. Going through my stag and bone knives, I found one that had developed a crack at the center pin and will need stabilizing to keep it from spreading. Let's not tell anyone about how much fun it is to collect those pretty celluloids, especially the old mint ones at very reasonable prices because so many collectors are afraid of celluloid. I have had several newer Winchester re-po's that have failed and had then rehandled in bone or stag, and I won't put the newer ones in with my antique ones.____Dave

Here are a few more. I find it amazing what they did with this beautiful material back in the day.

Beautiful Knives Wayne and Duffer! I enjoy looking at them. Mike

btrwtr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 10:02 pm Here are a few more. I find it amazing what they did with this beautiful material back in the day.

Impressive collection!!

Here's one I picked up for a song at the Badger show a few years back. Western, Boulder cracked ice about as perfect as a old knife could be.___Dave

djknife13 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 22, 2022 3:56 pm Here's one I picked up for a song at the Badger show a few years back. Western, Boulder cracked ice about as perfect as a old knife could be.___Dave

I've seen Western hunters celluloid get kind of mobile but that one is really looking good.
Nice knife, Dave.

Some of my beautiful celluloid!

edge213 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:59 pm Some of my beautiful celluloid!

I Love your rainbow collection

rustyoldknife wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:02 am

edge213 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:59 pm Some of my beautiful celluloid!

I Love your rainbow collection

Thanks man!

edge213 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:59 pm Some of my beautiful celluloid!

That's a heck of a lineup. How many more didn't make it into the photo?

Because of its volatile nature, I don't actively seek knives with celluloid covers. I have one knife that I can say for sure is celluloid. A couple-few others may be. I'll add a photo of the one a little later.

Dan In MI wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 3:58 pm

edge213 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:59 pm Some of my beautiful celluloid!

That's a heck of a lineup. How many more didn't make it into the photo?

Because of its volatile nature, I don't actively seek knives with celluloid covers. I have one knife that I can say for sure is celluloid. A couple-few others may be. I'll add a photo of the one a little later.

I have at least that many more. Not all are as colorful.
I will get a picture of some of the better looking ones.

I love celluloid handles, but I do keep a close eye on them.