Old Metal Handled Knives

[supratentorial]

Thanks for finding the thread, SP.
Some metal-handled Jacks.
This group leans toward agricultural uses.

Pens.

Various.

Larger mariners/rope knives.

Nice group of knives, Charlie! That barlow and boys knife are in exceptionally good condition... don't think I've seen other examples of those knives as well preserved as those two!


Here's a quick scan of a couple knives...

Here's an unusual pattern with unusual construction.

 

[Jack Black]

Nice collection Charlie :thumbup:

I have a lot of these myself, need to take some pics, I only have pics of some of them :thumbup:

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Jack Black]

 

[waynorth]

Unusual knives, Jake!

Massive collection, Jack!

Thanks to both of you for showing them to us!

 

[WValtakis]

Wow...So much to take in, I really like the "ruler" handled pieces

~Chip

 

[Stringplucker]

Thanks for finding the thread, SP.
Some metal-handled Jacks.
This group leans toward agricultural uses.

Your Simonds Worden White Co., Dayton, Ohio knife has my interest. I was born and grew up in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. Dayton was once the hotbed of tooling manufacturing. At one time, there were more tool and die companies in the Dayton area than any other area in the world. It's where I was taught my trade by 5 old German guys that had a combined experience of over 200 years in the trade.

H.R Simonds, who inherited the company from his father A.A Simonds, moved to a house built for his wife by her parents after the Great 1913 Flood on Haver Road named 5 Porches, in a suburb of Dayton named Oakwood. That house is around the corner from where my aunt and uncle live. Where the company once was, now sits Riverview Park. A.A. Simonds began the company under his name in 1874, later changing to A.A. Simonds and Sons Co., which later morphed into the company shown on your knife. H.R. Simonds had a number of patents filed. He was born in 1873 and died in 1956. After his death, the company was sold to H.H. Porter Co.

Dayton history is near and dear to my heart. I used to have a collection of diary entries that I had compiled over a 15 year period concerning the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. I lost it all in a house fire years ago. Everything was photocopies and entries I had hand copied from originals stored at the library, so nothing real was lost, only my time. I'll eventually get back to it, and compile everything into a book, chronicling the events from first raindrop to the last body found months later.

 

[r redden]

Jack that is an incredible and way cool collection. :thumbup: Everyone has favorites though and these two really caught my eye. I love the shield/badging of Joseph Rogers and the honeycomb pattern on the covers of the first one I reposted. It looks to be a lambsfoot am I correct?
I really like the advertisement for a newspaper on a knife I've never saw that before. Also a knife with a Yorkshire on the cover and Sheffield on the tang has to be way cool for a knife knut in Leeds like yourself my friend.
Thanks for posting these

Nice collection Charlie :thumbup:

I have a lot of these myself, need to take some pics, I only have pics of some of them :thumbup:

 

[Jack Black]

Unusual knives, Jake!

Massive collection, Jack!

Thanks to both of you for showing them to us!

Thanks Charlie, I need to get the camera out really, I have a lot that aren't included

Jack that is an incredible and way cool collection. :thumbup: Everyone has favorites though and these two really caught my eye. I love the shield/badging of Joseph Rogers and the honeycomb pattern on the covers of the first one I reposted. It looks to be a lambsfoot am I correct?
I really like the advertisement for a newspaper on a knife I've never saw that before. Also a knife with a Yorkshire on the cover and Sheffield on the tang has to be way cool for a knife knut in Leeds like yourself my friend.
Thanks for posting these

Thanks Randy The Joseph Rodgers is a look at the blade of my Joseph Rodgers G.P.O. (General Post Office Knife). They are big, heavy-bladed knives, which were issued to Linesmen, and used much like a Rope Knife, to cut through lead-covered cable. The Yorkshire Evening Post is published in Leeds, the town where I live now. I have a friend who worked for them most of his working life, but I doubt he's as old as that penknife :thumbup:

 

[brownshoe]

The ICI knife is from a chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries. It no longer exists.

 

[joeradza]

What a great collection Jack. There's something about a metal handled knife. I've had a few. An old SAK that I wore down so much it couldn't be repaired. I usually have a Douk-Douk in my pocket that I completely sanded down to the bare metal. To my mind they are the epitome of a knife being a tool. Use it and drop it back in the pocket ready for its next job.

Thanks for posting these.

 

[Jack Black]

The ICI knife is from a chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries. It no longer exists.

Interestingly, I got it from an antiques centre very close to the old ICI plant at Pannal near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where Crimplene was developed, and named after the tiny River Crimple, which runs behind the antiques centre

What a great collection Jack. There's something about a metal handled knife. I've had a few. An old SAK that I wore down so much it couldn't be repaired. I usually have a Douk-Douk in my pocket that I completely sanded down to the bare metal. To my mind they are the epitome of a knife being a tool. Use it and drop it back in the pocket ready for its next job.

Thanks for posting these.

Thanks Alan, I have a Douk-Douk and a Squirrel, and consider them great working knives :thumbup:

 

[Bugdoc]

Jake, thank you for doing the legwork on the Douk-Douk. Quite a history.

I have some other metal knives I will pull out and post.

 

[meako]