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Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:42 pm
by Handyguy
I am new to the forum - I'm listing pocket knives on eBay & have one I can not find any info on. The knife has many blades, wine opener, very nice removable tiny scissors and tweezers, two awls, flat blade screw driver, nail file, two sizes of can openers. The larger can opener blade reads "Kawamora made". The large blade reads "Vulcan" I believe, but the script style type may read something else.
Does anyone have any ideas about this knife?

- Vulcan? pocket knife
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Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:32 pm
by jonet143
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:12 pm
by Handyguy
I have looked at his site - I would love this knife to be one of his - but it does not resemble his knives that I have found on the web. I wonder if his father made knives as well.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:17 pm
by jonet143
no resemblance at all...just fishing. yours is spelled with an "o"? while his is a "u". the only reference to vulcan was either german and old or just old.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:40 pm
by Handyguy
It does look like KAWAMURA but the knife looks to be older that the young Kawamura who makes those knives.
I wonder if Kawamura is a place rather than a makers name.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:01 pm
by jonet143
from my search it seems to be japanese name.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:45 am
by justold52
jonet143 wrote:no resemblance at all...just fishing. yours is spelled with an "o"? while his is a "u". the only reference to vulcan was either german and old or just old.
or just old Are you refuring to me ?? LOL
Nice to see some one else likes knives with a scissors.
Handyguy Wellcome too AAPK.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:38 pm
by lenny357
Kawamura in Japanese means River Village
In can be a last name or a name of a town or prefecture (county)
It’s like a hint and somewhere out there, theirs an ansewer.
Kyocera Corporation (President: Makoto Kawamura)
http://global.kyocera.com/news/2008/0203.html
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:00 pm
by Handyguy
Thank you for that information!
I thought I might post some more pictures - it is a beautiful knife!
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:03 pm
by Handyguy
I don't know if I can post multiple images to a post but I wanted to show the tweezers & scissors too.
Re: Swiss Army Style "Vulcan?" tortoise shell pocket knife
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:12 pm
by Handyguy
I seem to have posted the same picture twice - here's a final picture