All About Pocket Knives

Myron wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:12 am @jaydar, I now have a donor Böker with lovely stag scales and a good corkscrew, but crap everything else. I am in need of a vintage 182 with a great toolset but cracked/missing stag scales!

Haha, thanks again for the help John!

Myron

Give me a day or two I will see what I can find

Excellent work ..... the steel on the awls seem so brittle but that fix should see it through the next 100 years :) Looking at the new Victorinox replica they suggest the awl was used to create the hole in a can to start the process for the can opener, I wonder if that's why we have so many broken t...

Don't know a huge amount about them but they were one of the first companies to make the First Swiss Army knife.

The very first were ordered from Solingen

I can see that the second O.P. knife is marked "Victorinox". I had thought that this name was first used in 1980's and that prior to this the marking was "Victoria". Can you comment on this please ? kj Well Victorinox as a tang stamp was used from 1923 when he added inox to the ...

I can see that the second O.P. knife is marked "Victorinox". I had thought that this name was first used in 1980's and that prior to this the marking was "Victoria". Can you comment on this please ? kj Well Victorinox as a tang stamp was used from 1923 when he added inox to the ...

Surely the 2 OP knives are more recent than 1942 ? When was this pattern D/C'd ? kj Well the first one is from the 40's up to about 1955 but it could be late 30's even the second one could be 60's or 70's ... upto 1973 when the clip point small blade was retired the long nail file on the backspring...

The top knife is very nice and very hard to find ... it's a long nail file golfer from the 1950's ish The Sakwiki does normally say that before the combo tool was introduced in in 1982 most knives had a small clip point blade instead (doesn't really effect the model) It would be model 207k based on ...

This is well worth a watch

Always nice to find an old lockback in mother of pearl about 185mm open (7.3 Inches)

THe blade has been sharpened but the MOP scales are perfect

Small but perfectly formed about 75mm

Took a snap before re-arranging this display, it started off neat and well ordered

Mostly Swiss and German

Just thought I would add a pic of one of his knives ....... a great loss

Few More Snaps

First trip back to the UK in for 18 months and did quite a bit of knife shopping but one of my favorites was this Stan Shaw Whittler

It's a pretty one , from the 80's after he setup on his own (info from the seller)

Got this from an auction before Christmas Still waiting to get my hands on it they posted it to the UK and I am stuck in Switzerland (my home for christmas plan did not go smoothly) Looks to be French with Tortoiseshell and 18kt gold bling The File is marked G.Keller which matches with the stamp of ...

I think it is a Roach Clip. Squeeze the handle and jaws open. pick up something tiny by releasing pressure on the handle pieces. kj I think you are correct Roland;a different style of tweezers. Yep you squeeze the arms and the jaws open just a little ...... anything they grip onto is staying grippe...

Got this delivered today unused in the box a little bit of tarnish but otherwise perfect It seems to be in brown horn and came hair shaving sharp With a little tab lock on the blade Joseph Rodgers & Sons Cutlers to her Majesty on the box 6 Norfolk Street Sheffield on the tang and a star and a cr...

Immaculate but very very tiny

Fantastic snap still with half stop .... a novelty but a brilliantly made one

Stamped

Ward & Co.
Bronxville
New York

Ok I know it's not a Bowie knife but it is a common enough description I thought I would run with it. It's A Mappin And Webb Stamped for the old factory in Sheffield so 1890's ish Oh it is next to a Case Elephant toe (for obscure reasons) P1220846.JPG P1220847.JPG P1220848.JPG P1220849.JPG P1220850....

Thanks all for the help .... I will try contacting case see what they say sadly I only have 2 Case knives here is a pic of the other .... I was quite surprised at the size of this one when it arrived. P1220840.JPG P1220843.JPG P1220844.JPG This is the other knife that arrived the same day not a pock...

Afternoon all I picked this up the other day and Case knives are not really my area (Hard to find out in Switzerland) eli1.jpeg eli2.jpeg eli3.jpeg Just wondered if this was done by Case or is it a 3rd party special edition on Case hardware either way nicely done but it would be nice to know. its a ...