All About Pocket Knives

Here one I found in dads tool box. Cleaned up and oiled, it has good snap now. Looks like the pen blade was broke and reshaped at some point. Not sure if the scales are original… one is brown, the other is black.

WOW beautiful old Union , handles look fine to me , not uncommon for Union to use different shades of bone .
Congrats
Mike

That is a very nice knife no matter what.
That it was your dads it is a treasure of the first order.

ScoutKnives wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 6:27 pm WOW beautiful old Union , handles look fine to me , not uncommon for Union to use different shades of bone .
Congrats
Mike

So the different color scales is original?
What’s the year range of manufacture?

That is a rare pattern knife! I'd say the handle scales are original and the knife was probably made 1915-1923. I have a well used KA-BAR version, pattern is hard to find. Other than the broken pen blade it looks in very nice condition!

Great pattern and find!

Here is another one that I believe is a Union arch tang stamp. I can’t make out all the letters but just enough.
Rusty with blade wobble, but still has snap after all these years. I love the match book nail pull.

That op knife is fantastic!!!

It’s not uncommon at all to find mismatched scales on older knives. Different bone took the dye in different ways, and Back then they didn’t care. These were tools back then, not collectors items. Those old guys would probably think we were crazy for collecting their old knives. lol.

real cool, not often seen. thanks for sharing.

Colonel26 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:16 pm Those old guys would probably think we were crazy for collecting their old knives. lol.

And they'd roll their eyes if they knew what we paid for them.

FRJ wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:31 pm

Colonel26 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:16 pm Those old guys would probably think we were crazy for collecting their old knives. lol.

And they'd roll their eyes if they knew what we paid for them.

Yes sir, they would.

Kabar had that pattern remade for their collector’s club and I have always liked that pattern. This is the first seeing one of the originals that the remakes were made from. Very nice and very rare.

Awesome testaments to Ka-Bar's craftsmanship and knife history.