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Very nice Wayne,a great selection of old and rare

Great knives Wayne

A+ Wayne!

Those are cool Wayne. That auto knife I assume you twist the end to make it open?

The Harwi knives and the Stainless Knife switchblade have found new homes. It was a pleasure to own them and do some research on them. I still have the pictures to remember them by.

I contacted a number of noted switchblade authorities on the little auto and no one had ever seen or heard of one before. It was a very interesting little knife and I suspect the amount of machining involved in making it precluded the manufacture and sales. I call it a $5 knife that cost $15 to make. The threaded cap worked to both release the blade and also once opened, lock the blade in place. The throw spring moved back and forth in the solid stainless frame as the threaded cap was turned.

btrwtr wrote:Here is a group photo along with some closeups.

The Harwi Hardware knives are the only two Harwi brand knives I've ever seen.

The Keen Kutter whittler came with the accompanying purse.

The Stainless Knife tang marked Patent is the only one that anyone has ever seen as far as I can tell. It is a very unique auto opener.

The little aluminum Waterville is in great shape for it's age and uncleaned.

I recognize that Waterville - Wayne was kind enough to sell it to me last year at Mystic ... it’s unique to my eye having the 2 pen blades on opposite ends of the same well and the master blade occupies the other well...

Wayne showed me that little Stainless Knife screw cap switchblade at that show as well - reminded me of something James Bond would carry ...

Picked these up over the last couple months. Ivory Taylor Union,ebony BOE,tortoise HWG,appears to be bone Eagle Cutlery Co, and lastly horn coke bottle Standard knife co. If anyone knows anything about the Taylor Union I would appreciate information on it, thanks for looking.

LongBlade wrote:

btrwtr wrote:Here is a group photo along with some closeups.

The Harwi Hardware knives are the only two Harwi brand knives I've ever seen.

The Keen Kutter whittler came with the accompanying purse.

The Stainless Knife tang marked Patent is the only one that anyone has ever seen as far as I can tell. It is a very unique auto opener.

The little aluminum Waterville is in great shape for it's age and uncleaned.

I recognize that Waterville - Wayne was kind enough to sell it to me last year at Mystic ... it’s unique to my eye having the 2 pen blades on opposite ends of the same well and the master blade occupies the other well...

Wayne showed me that little Stainless Knife screw cap switchblade at that show as well - reminded me of something James Bond would carry ...

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That’s a neat ole knife Lee,nice find and good maker.

Thanks Bill ...

BWT wrote:Picked these up over the last couple months. Ivory Taylor Union,ebony BOE,tortoise HWG,appears to be bone Eagle Cutlery Co, and lastly horn coke bottle Standard knife co. If anyone knows anything about the Taylor Union I would appreciate information on it, thanks for looking.

And that is quite a nice showing of knives Bill - you scored some cool knives ...

Thanks Lee!!!

Good show, Bill.

Thanks Joe!!!

BWT wrote:Picked these up over the last couple months. Ivory Taylor Union,ebony BOE,tortoise HWG,appears to be bone Eagle Cutlery Co, and lastly horn coke bottle Standard knife co. If anyone knows anything about the Taylor Union I would appreciate information on it, thanks for looking.

Bill. Nice knives. I like every one of them. ____Dave

Thanks Dave, I don’t post photos often, I enjoy looking at the other members knives. Thanks for looking and the comments

Some great knives posted in the last couple of weeks! I am especially partial to Roland's EK Tryon senator, Wayne's pearl Keen Kutter whittler and Bill's BOE ebony jack. Lee, very nice pickup, from Wayne, of the aluminum Waterville.

This one's not that old, but I think it might be sort of rare. The guy who sold it to me at the OKCA show last week didn't know anything about it, he sent me to another guy who was some expert supposed to know. He didn't know jack, never heard of it. He sent me to another guy, no info. Finally went to Charlie Campagna and Barry of Gunstock Jacks and they didn't know either, but Charlie had the knife encyclopedia and pulled it out and looked it up. Even the encyclopedia was calling it something slightly different than is on the tang. But it's supposed to be 1945 year. Can't find a crack or chip in the bones, good Rogers color, sweet snap and solid no wobble open. Very stout springs. Something about the stylf of the WW2 era knives gets me. I have a few from the 30's and 40's and love them, they have something. Great era of American manufacturing and design

DEPEND-ON
MET CUT CO
N.Y.

" oh, I don't know where you come from, and I don't know where you been, but it really doesn't matter...…" Glad I don't have to know it's pedigree to like it. Iman I like that knife every time I see it. Classic beauty. Takes me back to a slower time. A time when things were not as shallow. I really like that knife.

Very nice, Ivoryman!

Trying to make sense of that tang stamp, which I have never seen, makes me wonder if "MET" does not stand for "Metropolitan".

And there was a Metropolitan Cutlery Co in New York City from 1914 until 1951.

They were importers of German made knives.

Goins lists them in some detail, but does not link them to that tang stamp.

"DEPEND ON ME" would have made more sense, but that is obviously not how it reads.

Nice looking knife. I like it!

Charlie Noyes

Thanks all for the comments. RobesonaRme, first time I read the stamp I thought it was short for Metropolitan Cut Co because it doesn't say DEPEND ON ME TOO, as the encyclopedia had one listed. Didn't make sense. Anything you know would be great to hear, but you echoed what everyone else said. Consensus on that I guess. Here's a shot of the secondary stamp. Thanks again.

Here's one from France.

Is anyone familiar with this stamp?

Neat old knife, Joe! I have no idea on the stamp, other than the English translation is "the wild sheep".

Thank you, Dan.

Very cool and unique Joe ... Trying to figure out exactly what it was used for based on that combination of blades ..

Quite a looker FRJ, great old piece, never seen anything like it, thanks for showing.