"Old Knives"

[r8shell]

I look forward to your (maybe pending?) thread on ink erasers, Rachel!
Here is one, probably not as old as your two, but made for Canada when ink pens were still used I assume!!View attachment 1584895View attachment 1584896View attachment 1584897

Very cool! I wonder when they stopped making them. My mother used to make a little pin money doing calligraphy for fancy diplomas and awards. This was back in the '70s. I don't remember her using an eraser, just cussing and having to start over.

I'm still hoping my Rodgers shows up, and plan to start a thread.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks Gus, Duncan and Charlie
Charlie, I suspect it's been lounging in a drawer all my life, it appears to have lead a life of leisure

Great place to find an old knife!! Maybe continue its leisurely ways where someone can Chicken eye it!!

 

[waynorth]

I'm still hoping my Rodgers shows up, and plan to start a thread.

Can't wait!!

P.S. is your mailbox full??

 

[r8shell]

Can't wait!!

P.S. is your mailbox full??

I need to renew my membership.

 

[waynorth]

r8shell , email sent

 

[pistonsandgears]

Little Remington R7423 Sleeveboard double blade on a single backspring Circa 1924-1933

With the Remington Fishermans daddy barlow of the same vintage (seems fitting for fathers day)

 

[Un-Chained]

pistonsandgears
Happy Father’s Day my friend
a beaut’ of a wee buddy!!

 

[tongueriver]

Sorry about not 'liking' some of these darlings, lately. For whatever reason, I don't get notifications for the threads I signed onto for notifications, and I get behind. I do love you all, and all of your knives, and in the meantime, Happy Fathers' Day and Happy Summer Solstice!

 

[Un-Chained]

Cal… always a pleasure

 

[Un-Chained]

Here’s an unusual one and my first Geo.Schrade tang stamp. At barely 3”3/8s all metal with a half stop and snappy with quite some life left in that blade. Real slim too!!

 

[tongueriver]

I've found a new little collecting niche: ink eraser knives. They are interesting tools and an economical way to find some very old tang stamps.

I bought one that says: Wards Eraser, and when it got here, I noticed below that: S.W.C.C.

The only thing that comes to mind is Schrade Walden Cutlery Co, but I've never seen that particular marking. Anyone have any ideas?

I've got a Joseph Rodgers that tracking says is stuck somewhere between Houston and Austin for four days now.
If it ever gets here, I plan to start a dedicated ink eraser thread. They qualify as traditional fixed blades, right?

Goins' has a "Swan Works Cutlery Co. Germany" which is a long shot for your ink eraser but the letters fit. I don't doubt that some of them were imported. Looking forward to the upcoming thread!

 

[Un-Chained]

Another recent one I’m proud of, as it’s my first STA-SHARP. At 3”7/8s smooth, snappy, and tight, it’s a finely made plastic handled Camillus I believe. I just lurve the main’s engraving! Well aged and well enough preserved.

 

[baxtrom]

My father’s knife, and his father’s before him. Acquired in the 40s or 50s while hiking in the Swedish mountains. Sami pattern, marked “Sylarna”, a mountain on the border between Sweden and Norway.

 

[r8shell]

Goins' has a "Swan Works Cutlery Co. Germany" which is a long shot for your ink eraser but the letters fit. I don't doubt that some of them were imported. Looking forward to the upcoming thread!

Thanks, that sounds like a possible candidate.

 

[waynorth]

John Primble, India Steel Works!! This knife comes from an era of artistically created, well-made American knives!! Both blades marked, great pick bone, etch still visible; it's in great collectible condition! 3 5/8" knife.
"English Steel (Primble logo) Hand Forged" etch! Matchstrike main, both blades have long pulls - fancy shield icing the cake!!
Scanned on a vintage AGFA scanner, through patina-ed glass!!

 

[Un-Chained]

Charlie…
What a wunderful knaf for some cf/ce’n.
I just lurve match strikes and long—pulls too !
That stone’s hue would make one serious pair of scales !!

 

[tongueriver]

Another beauty, Charlie, eh? I love that picked bone. I always wonder who made what knives for what shipment for what hardware store.

 

[Gevonovich]

John Primble, India Steel Works!! This knife comes from an era of artistically created, well-made American knives!! Both blades marked, great pick bone, etch still visible; it's in great collectible condition! 3 5/8" knife.
"English Steel (Primble logo) Hand Forged" etch! Matchstrike main, both blades have long pulls - fancy shield icing the cake!! View attachment 1588024View attachment 1588025View attachment 1588026
Scanned on a vintage AGFA scanner, through patina-ed glass!!

What an exquisite Eureka

 

[Campbellclanman]

I agree with our friends Gus, Cal and Gev, Charlie that's an real beauty! Like Cal says the Pic Bone is Sublime, there would be very few of these beauties that exist I'm betting.

 

[rockman0]

Charlie, beautiful Primble that shield and pick bone!!