All About Pocket Knives

A couple of different varieties I've been able to find, a couple might be very late 50s, all post pick lock era

OMG! That’s a haul! I don’t even have half that many.wow!

Amazing collection! Has to be one of the best seen on this board

thank you for the compliments

Great collection and I like the early 1960s stilettos because they are comparable in quality to the 1950s pickocks.

That is a great collection!

Pile Driver wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:06 pm A couple of different varieties I've been able to find, a couple might be very late 50s, all post pick lock era0905231754a_HDR~2.jpg

Awesome!

That's one beautiful assortment of autos, P.D., congratulations on being their owner.
Who makes/made the 3 smaller "earless" models? Thx!

Madmarco wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:35 am That's one beautiful assortment of autos, P.D., congratulations on being their owner.
Who makes/made the 3 smaller "earless" models? Thx!

It says Kissing Cranes, I don't believe they actually made them but they were made for them. Perhaps Bill DeShivs knows?

Thanks, P.D.!

Pile Driver wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:06 pm A couple of different varieties I've been able to find, a couple might be very late 50s, all post pick lock era0905231754a_HDR~2.jpg

Sweet sassy Malassy! Looks like some real stag in there What a great photo!

I believe the Martinuzzos in Maniago made the Kissing Crane coil spring autos.

Madmarco wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 3:35 am That's one beautiful assortment of autos, P.D., congratulations on being their owner.
Who makes/made the 3 smaller "earless" models? Thx!

I was wondering too since they are made completely different that the stilettos. Does anyone have any information?

Thanks Bill.
Read Bill DeShivs reply, NYW!

Madmarco wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:16 am NYW!

I’ve seen three types of models, and all are different. Do we know if one guy made them all or different clans?

No, we don't.

Ha, ha, ha!
Thanks Bill!
There ya go, NYW!

Bill DeShivs wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:55 pm No, we don't.

Thanks. I guess just lost to time. Too bad we don’t know. I was curious because there are Japanese models and I wonder if the Martinuzzos designed them too or if they were made in Italy and sold in Japan.

Bill DeShivs wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:22 am I believe the Martinuzzos in Maniago made the Kissing Crane coil spring autos.

Bill!
There's a small "earless" lockback model with stag covers for sale in an AAPK store that looks very much like the one in the picture, and the seller described it as coming from the Belgian market, does that change your opinion at all about where they are made? Thx!

Madmarco wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 9:12 pm

Bill DeShivs wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:22 am I believe the Martinuzzos in Maniago made the Kissing Crane coil spring autos.

Bill!
There's a small "earless" lockback model with stag covers for sale in an AAPK store that looks very much like the one in the picture, and the seller described it as coming from the Belgian market, does that change your opinion at all about where they are made? Thx!

I would describe that knife closer to a swing guard frame without a swing guard, not saying its missing but the knife body more closely resembles a swing guard lock back (also photographed in the OP 9" horn, 11" stag).

These three humpbacks are different, stepped bolster like a standard stiletto missing the ears/guards, and the humpback release instead of the lower lockback.

I hear ya, P.D., could be right.

Madmarco wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:05 pm I hear ya, P.D., could be right.

You could have said no youre wrong

True dat!