"Old Knives"

[waynorth]

Charlie, that is an amazing old Ka-Bar.

Thanks, John!! Mouldering but intact, I'd say!!

 

[Augie]

Picked up this Schrade Cut Co curved jack with some type of synthetic handles. 3 5/8". Pretty much unused but suffered from corrosion.
Etch is Arnold,Hoffman&Co Inc which was a dye manufacturer that traced it's roots back to 1815 and was around until the early 1990's
I don't remember seeing this pattern all that often.

 

[waynorth]

Nice find, John!! It says "Compliments"!!
I wonder what the role of that knife was back then??

 

[Augie]

Nice find, John!! It says "Compliments"!!
I wonder what the role of that knife was back then??

I would imagine it was given to customers or potential customers, they were a pretty large dye manufacturer and supplied the southern textile mills from what I read.
http://www.colorantshistory.org/ArnoldHoffman.html

 

[Campbellclanman]

Great Pattern Augie! Nice to see this neat old Knife!

 

[Augie]

Great Pattern Augie! Nice to see this neat old Knife!

Thanks Duncan, I think they were named New England Whaler, later Case called them Loom Fixer.

 

[Campbellclanman]

You Got it matey - Sheffield Origin - but I just think that your Knife is such a cool ol' Knife - it just looks great- especially with that Full Blade my friend!

 

[lambertiana]

I don't think I have posted this one before. If so, my apologies. A 3 1/4" Ulster jack with nice ebony

 

[Campbellclanman]

Uuuuuuumm - you apologising for perhaps showing us this lovely big Ol' Jack again Lambertiana?
I would be happier if you gave us a Monthly viewing of that Great Old Knife

 

[Robeson]

This looks like a pen but it is a knife

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

This looks like a pen but it is a knife

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That brings a whole different meaning to "pen knife", thats really neat.

 

[eisman]

 

[Campbellclanman]

eisman Sir, Please...... tell us more about that Dandy looking Knife

 

[eisman]

Please...... tell us more about that Dandy looking Knife

What I know isn't much...This is the second knife I've found in this pattern; it doesn't seem to big player. I know it looks a lot like a Doctors pattern when closed, but it's bigger than most of those, being 4" long when closed. Cattaragus shows the pattern as a "Slim Jack". I like slim main blades and pens on the "right" side, so this punches my buttons. This one has a little patina on the main (more noticeable in the pics below) but the pen looks factory clean. Lovely scales and even the shield works well (although it's slightly tilted off the centerline). Main blade is dead center, pen pulls in a little and has some rub marks from the center spacer. All in all a pattern I'd love to see somebody resurrect.

More pics from off the desktop tonight...

 

[waynorth]

Nice one eisman!!
It looks like the spearpoints were fashioned off-center, to fit inside the slim handle! Probably Factory. Zulu-like!!!

 

[Luger1952]

Eisman, beautiful “slim” Jack! Those handles are gorgeous with all the different colors jumping out especially the orangey brown highlights. Cattaraugus and Robeson really had the Indian Trail or Worm Groove jigging down to a fine art. Those jigging patterns along with the Schrade peach seed and NYKC pick bone jigging are probably some of the best jigging patterns of all time imho

 

[Campbellclanman]

I agree with you Lloyd about the Bone. The very reason as to why I asked about the Knife - that Bone is Stunning, Thank you eisman Sir for coming back to satisfy my curiosity - most appreciated!
Those Blades are beautiful too! - just check out the Swedge work on them! Lovely Knife my friend!

 

[541FishOn]

My Great Grandpa passed on this little knife to me as a boy. He passed away some time ago now and I’m happy to have a special family token to carry on to remember him by. I don’t know much about it or how old it is, but it seems like a quality little antique. Anyways, I thought I’d reach out to some enthusiasts and see if anyone knows anything about this lil gem of a slipjoint and its history.

 

[North Shore]

Sorry if its bringing this thread down but I believe I found a colonial American pocket knife while metal detecting in Massachusetts along some old farm walls in the woods. Anyone else seeing it? Ideas how I might improve it to maybe definitely tell? I already smacked it on a tree while out thinking it was a hunk of ox shoe, o well. You can definitely see it has wood slab scales.

 

[waynorth]

Ultra-sonic cleaner???