new york knife co

[ScoutKnives]

Wow , very nice !!!!!!
Is that a 2 blade with the be prepared banner shield ?
Master clip blade and strange implement blade ?
If so crazy rare !

[knifegnome]

Thanks everyone for the thumbs up,Ralph i will try to get more pictures of the cigar knife,Scoutknives,yes on the Be Prepared knife, the tip of the can opener is gone.I think I am going to catalog my knives in photos,any tips for getting good pictures.

[knifegnome]

Ralph,here is the NYK cigar,look close at the tang stamps,double stamped,the Hammer Brand stamp and a Northfield UNXLD stamp.

[knifegnome]

Scoutknives, The NYK Be Prepared knife,and an ad from Feb 1912 for the first Official Scout knife.

[RalphAlsip]

Ralph,here is the NYK cigar,look close at the tang stamps,double stamped,the Hammer Brand stamp and a Northfield UNXLD stamp.

knifegnome, thank you for posting more pictures of the NYK cigar knife. You're right the stamp is unusual with Northfield included. The bone definitely looks like classic NYK bone and the shield also looks to NYK. Did NYK make knives for Northfield?

It's a super nice knife.

[ScoutKnives]

Thank you for the pictures Knifegnome
That was a very hard knife for me to find , here is a picture of mine .

If you need to fill any blanks LMK I have several NYK doubles .

[ea42]

Knifegnome and Ralph, I think that Northfield blade was added to the knife some time later in its life. You can see that the bolsters were re-pinned and re-glazed and buffed. The center pin also looks like a replacement.

That's a fantastic collection knifegnome, some really rare ones in there!

ScoutKnives that's a fantastic example, first one I've seen other than in print!

Eric

[knifegnome]

NYK letterhead with the second house brand Wallkill River Works knives ,date 1928-1931.

[Miller Bro's]

Nice knives and paperwork Scott

What is the patent they are talking about, do you have page one?

[ScoutKnives]

Awesome NYK knives knifegnome

[knifegnome]

Thanks guys, I don't have page 1,not sure what the patent is for. Scott

[Miller Bro's]

Here's my tool kit.

[FRJ]

Beautiful Wallkill River Works knives.

Great tool kit, Dimitri.

[Miller Bro's]

Thank you Joe!

[peanut740]

MB, I must have the deluxe set, it has 2 handles.One with a spear blade and the other with a punch.

[Miller Bro's]

MB, I must habe the deluxe set, it has 2 handles.One with a spear blade and the other with a punch.

Roger, same set as mine except my handle with the spear blade was missing when I bought it

A common occurrence with these sets, the spear blade frame could be carried in the pocket and was a more useful tool than the punch blade frame

[peanut740]

Absolutely! I bought this set and a Napanoch set at the last Tulsa show from Stockman/Harold.

[stockman]

MB, I must have the deluxe set, it has 2 handles.One with a spear blade and the other with a punch.

Beautiful set Roger.

Harold

[ea42]

Beautiful tool sets, you don't see those very often in that shape!!

Here's a little ephemera for you, an original NYK patent, dated 1931, for a pocket clip incorporated into the knife construction! Of course the clip was a bit smaller back in those days. I've never actually seen a NYK knife with this feature, but I'm sure there's at least one out there:

Eric

[Miller Bro's]

That's neat Eric, thanks for showing it

[peanut740]

That`s about the time they went belly up.

[ea42]

Yes, same year. Crazy move trying to auction a year's worth of production. Probably done out of desperation.

Eric

[ScoutKnives]

Picked this one up recently , Camp Fire Girls WoHeLo .

[wlf]

That’s a beauty Mike.

[knife7knut]

MB, I must have the deluxe set, it has 2 handles.One with a spear blade and the other with a punch.

Just came across this post. Just out of curiosity are they stamped Hammer Brand New York Knife Co. or just Hammer Brand? The reason I ask is the attachment hooks for the tools look like the later style ones used when Imperial took over the Hammer Brand stamp.
I know a lot of the German tool kits will have two handles in them and sometimes they will not have any permanent blades in them and the tools can be inserted two ways:parallel and perpendicular to the handle(mostly for corkscrews and awls).