Automatic Knife
Automatic Knife
Would like to know if anyone has any information on a knife that I have.
Stag Handle, automatic, "Keen Tickler" on the blade, (between "Keen" and "Tickler" is a crane looking bird with it's beak holding "1900", the other crane's beak is holding the end of the "1900", Germany is marked on the opposite side of these markings.
The knife is 4-3/8" long closed and 7-7/8" opened.
thanks
Stag Handle, automatic, "Keen Tickler" on the blade, (between "Keen" and "Tickler" is a crane looking bird with it's beak holding "1900", the other crane's beak is holding the end of the "1900", Germany is marked on the opposite side of these markings.
The knife is 4-3/8" long closed and 7-7/8" opened.
thanks
Re: Automatic Knife
Welcome to AAPK. I don't have the answer to your question...but someone smarter than me, will come along. It's a great looking knife!
Heretical Refurb / Mods of cheap old folders, since late 2018
Re: Automatic Knife
Very knice looking Springer. Germany turned out some fine switch blades.
- New_Windsor_NY
- Gold Tier
- Posts: 10972
- Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2018 4:50 pm
- Location: I'm On The Far Right On The Left Coast In Commiefornia
Re: Automatic Knife
Maybe the answer you seek is here: viewforum.php?f=86deerrack wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:57 pm Would like to know if anyone has any information on a knife that I have.
Stag Handle, automatic, "Keen Tickler" on the blade, (between "Keen" and "Tickler" is a crane looking bird with it's beak holding "1900", the other crane's beak is holding the end of the "1900", Germany is marked on the opposite side of these markings.
The knife is 4-3/8" long closed and 7-7/8" opened.
thanks
Kid: "Wish we had time to bury them fellas."
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
Skip
Josey Wales: "To hell with them fellas. Buzzards got to eat, same as worms."
Clint Eastwood-The Outlaw Josey Wales
Skip
Re: Automatic Knife
Kissing krane lever lock would be my guess.
- Mumbleypeg
- Gold Tier
- Posts: 13468
- Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:28 am
- Location: Republic of Texas
Re: Automatic Knife
The birds don't look like Cranes to me. Certainly not like those on a Klaas Kissing Crane stamp. More like geese or ducks? The rays over the 1900 (1908?) look similar to the rays on a Schlieper Eye Brand stamp.
Are there no marks on the tang or anywhere else besides the blade etch?
Ken
Are there no marks on the tang or anywhere else besides the blade etch?
Ken
Member AKTI, TSRA, NRA.
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
Re: Automatic Knife
The same side as the etchings has the two birds with rays on top of them down near the tang, other side same spot has Germany stamped.
-
- Gold Tier
- Posts: 2187
- Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:37 pm
- Location: westminster sc
- Contact:
Re: Automatic Knife
here is a pic of the "Germany", the birds near the tang and another of the "Keen Tickler", etching
Re: Automatic Knife
Possibly a commemorative knife for something in 1900 . Neat knife !
- Mumbleypeg
- Gold Tier
- Posts: 13468
- Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:28 am
- Location: Republic of Texas
Re: Automatic Knife
I worked with your pictures a little. Hope you don’t mind but maybe this will help.
Ken
Ken
Member AKTI, TSRA, NRA.
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
Re: Automatic Knife
no problem, just hope someone has an ideal who made this.
I got it off of a guy in 1983, held on to it since then.
I got it off of a guy in 1983, held on to it since then.
- Paladin
- Bronze Tier
- Posts: 11437
- Joined: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:20 am
- Location: Near Austin, Texas, between a Rock and a Weird Place
- Contact:
Re: Automatic Knife
Hubertus made a lot of those. Has anybody considered them?
Ray
Ray
Paladin
God Bless the USA
Please visit my store SWEETWATER KNIVES
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
God Bless the USA
Please visit my store SWEETWATER KNIVES
"Buy more ammo" - Johnnie Fain
"I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy." Augustus McCrae
Re: Automatic Knife
I went through Anthony Carter's "German Knife and Sword Makers" page by page and could not find a mark that looks anything like this one, or any reference to "Keen Tickler". The index at the back has a list of makers that used a bird in their logo and I looked at the write ups for each of them, with no luck. Ray, the book says that Hubertus knives were made by Kuno Ritter. There is no mention of this particular stamp in the write up on them.
Dan
Re: Automatic Knife
Just for info I sent an email question about this knife to the German Knife company and so far no reply back, but that was late Friday. So maybe sometime this week they might answer and I will share what I found out from them.
Re: Automatic Knife
Just noticed this is your fifth post and no one has yet said to AAPK.
The German Knife company?, which one, there are many German knife companies?
The German Knife company?, which one, there are many German knife companies?
Dan
Re: Automatic Knife
Welcome to the forum!
Re: Automatic Knife
never have heard back from the knife company in Germany. Any else have an ideals on this manufacturer?
-
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:35 am
Re: Automatic Knife
You'll have to excuse my newness to the forum as well as my ignorance as I could have saved myself a lot of typing had I figured out how to put attachments onto my posts.
Regardless, again, I hope these were at least of some help to you.
Regardless, again, I hope these were at least of some help to you.
- Mumbleypeg
- Gold Tier
- Posts: 13468
- Joined: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:28 am
- Location: Republic of Texas
Re: Automatic Knife
Welcome to AAPK, and thanks for the information. It indicates perhaps the name “Keen Tickler” originated with New York Knife Company. Only adds to the mystery though. Now we not only don’t know who made the German automatic, we don’t know how they acquired the Keen Tickler name!
Ken
Ken
Member AKTI, TSRA, NRA.
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
If your religion requires that you hate someone, you need a new religion.
When the people fear their government, that is tyranny. When government fears the people, that is freedom.
https://www.akti.org/
Re: Automatic Knife
I can't add anything, but that is a nice old knife.
Harold
Harold