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Some of these old time shields could teach the current makers a thing or three.
Great stuff

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This 2 1/2" ivory congress has one you don't see too often. It's a standard bar shield but it's made from abalone.

That's a real nice Boker, with a fantastic shield.....

IM

Thanks, IM.

Great knives Dave and tboy.

Great and unusual shields everybody,thanks for showing.

Not my knife. I saw this Hammer Brand on eBay thought the shield was rather unique. Apologies if a shield like this has already been posted, but I'm too lazy to look through all 22 previous pages of knife shields.

Thats a nice hammer brand

That is certainly an older Hammer with those rat tail bolsters.

Hope this little shield counts

I thought this one would have shown up much sooner than this. Awesome thread BTW

REMINGTON Dog grooming knife Airedale shield. I love it

Very nice, PA! The detail on that shield is awesome.

Bulldog Kentucky Derby....

Here is 1 more for this thread.

Nice looking shield Tim

Thanks MB

Here is another.....kind of plain, but you don't see many of them.

Here is a Kent shield that I just got today.Kind of an unusual knife;see my thread in the Q&A forum,"your thoughts on this knife"

Here's knife I picked up recently with a shield that's a bit different. A wide-bottomed variation of a bomb shield?

Tim -- Here's the other McGrew shield that I am aware of.

Here are two more for this thread. The first is a whittler marked Spring Sheffield. The shield design isn't all that unusual, however the size is. This is the largest shield I've seen in proportion to the size of the scale. It begs the question, why is the shield so freaking big? The second is a Caldwell Cutlery Co. fish jack. This knife has a shield that I haven't seen before. I like this one a lot.

I really like those shields Dave

I have an old English folder like that with an over sized shield too

Stole this picture from an eBay auction Mike Sexton had up. I think the shield is really neat.

Here are some pics from an active internet auction for a Henry Sears four bladed surveyor pattern double-ended jack.

Quite a great pattern and I think the large shield is worthy of this thread.

Charlie Noyes

Miller Bro`s wrote:I really like those shields Dave

I have an old English folder like that with an over sized shield too

Thanks, Dimitri.

Rigwelder/Jerry/MB:
Here is a different type New York with the big Prop. Just picked it up today
moss
Edit: nearly forgot as it was during my search of this forum about 45 minutes ago. JACK KNIFE BEN showed a big Cattaraugus with one of these on it also.