All About Pocket Knives

There's no dedicated thread to knives with horn handles, let's see your knives with cow horn, buffalo horn, etc.

I like knives with this handle material as long as the dermistid beetles don't pay them a visit!

I am 98% (not 100%) certain this Blish Mize Hardware jack is horn. And the H. Boker pre-war gentleman's knife (big @ 3 3/4 inches!) is definitely horn.

Every Blish, Mize and Silliman knife I have ever seen was celluloid. Not saying yours is, too.

Just sayin'

That BOKER is beautiful. Is that your knife?

Charlie

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Every Blish, Mize and Silliman knife I have ever seen was celluloid. Not saying yours is, too.

Just sayin'

That BOKER is beautiful. Is that your knife?

Charlie

Thanks for the heads-up. Yes, they are both mine.

Here's a D. Miller & Son jack.

J.W. Linders & Son, bartenders knife.

Reason I asked about the Boker was the photo looked like one from North West Knives, an Ebay seller of high quality stuff.

Beautiful knife. I'm envious.

Charlie

Great idea for a thread Dimitri and nice classic horn handled switch blade ... Italian made?

Beautiful knives Cal ... I’m not sure if the Blish Mise is horn based on color - I can’t see those tell-tale striations...

Great additions Joe ...

Here’s one of mine - I have to dig up my others to post...

Empire Knife Co - Big old stabber jack type pattern..

Here's a Friedr Herder and a Henckels

Blue, Lee, Joe and Cal nice horn handle knives!
Lee, the tangs only mark is " Made in Italy".


Here's another one that I really like.

Here is a nice little James Barber congress that I recently sold.

That's some cool colors Wayne

Pretty things guys.
A Lockwood Bros. and a Joseph Elliot farmers jacks

Here is a Garland whittler.

Nice knives guys! Here's some H. Bokers to add to the mix.

This horn is nice stuff. Great show.

Here's a few more of mine.

Morton & Son - Sheffield
Holley
Miller Bros.
P.K. Co. - A1

Nice thread Dimitri, enjoying looking at all of them so far, to many to mention now but you know who you are, nice knives

BWT wrote:Nice thread Dimitri, enjoying looking at all of them so far, to many to mention now but you know who you are, nice knives

Ditto...

...and here's one I can add...
a Dwight Devine & Sons' Ulster splitback whittler... pattern №31550X @ 3⅝" closed with horn handles (1926−41).
Roger (peanut740), whom I received the knife from, stated they were horn handles, but did not specify what kind...
I have always assumed they are ram's horn?...
P.S. My photos really don't do the horn handles justice...

Not sure if this counts because as it is not old... but being of Canal Street Cutlery... its a beauty...
not mine but my girlfriend's... picked up at the Lehigh Valley autumn show this year...
I have to admit... I'm a bit envious...

thegreedygulo wrote:Nice knives guys! Here's some H. Bokers to add to the mix.

I am loving everything I see in this thread, but I just wanted to say that Roger's Bokers are the best Boker collection in the world; this little snapshot is no more than that. I am in awe.

Some beautiful knives shown.

Here is a French knife marked HERZ Specialty Products, Bargean Inox. Locking master, saw and spiral punch. 4 7/8" closed.

Wow, some really nice knives being posted!

Nice knife Wayne, the French used a lot of horn for handle material as did the Germans, Italians and Spanish.

Here's one I believe to be from Spain solid horn carved and inlaid with silver wire.

Here are a few:
A fisherman's knife by Joseph Rodgers for Abercrombie & Fitch with checkered horn handles. A couple of switchblades including a tiny one with two entirely different handles.
A circa 1900 switchblade with a toplock release.
Two switchblades(large)I got in high school.
A balisong.
A large barong with a goat horn handle decorated with gold flowers.

Some more:
A large clear horn handled navaja etched with a scene of Seville.
A large lock back pruner marked Hoffritz Italy
A French riggers knife marked E.Renaud Armes made of a singlt piece of horn.
A huge folding dirk marked Frosolone.
A 3 back spring knife marked Henry Sears 1865. Not sure what type of horn this is but it is not synthetic.
Two French made House of Cutlery champagne knives.
A non automatic stiletto.
A huge stockman made in Italy.
A W.H.Wragg folder.

Last one: A pair of souvenir swords from the Phillippines made entirely of water buffalo horn. To give you an idea of the size of these they are sitting atop a standard brief case which is 17 inches long.

Great idea for a thread Dimitri! I should have posted my shabby offerings earlier because what's been shown so far is a tough act to follow. Here's a little Premier Lifetime pen, and a cobbled up Frankenknife hobo that I picked up several years ago at a flea market.

Ken