Old knives with tipped bolsters

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I picked up this nice Wards tip bolster pen today at our local flea market for a couple of bucks. Still in nice usable shape.
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Love the tip bolsters. I need more of them..
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Very recently, I acquired this CAMILLUS 60. It is a 3 blade, 3 1/8" closed, milled liners, "split spring" whittler pocket knife.
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That's way cool, Skip! ::tu::
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toomanyknives wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 3:49 am That's.....
Thank you Kerry.🍻
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L-R......Nelson, Griffon, Robeson, Bristol
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Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 11:46 pm L-R......Nelson, Griffon, Robeson, Bristol
Great looking knives Ike!
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All Winchesters from the 1920`s. Mike
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Ike that’s 4 good looking knives, two rare ones,at least to me!

Mike that’s a really good showing of tip bolsters and Winchesters!!! Very nice.
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Ike and Mike ::tu::
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W. Bingham
Ulster Knife Co.
Holley Lakeville
Challenge Stainless
I posted a photo of the Holley backspring, I’m wondering if anyone knows what this style is called? Thanks in advance.
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The rest of them.
Witte Hdw.
Water-Ville
Norvell Shapleigh
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Nice bone on your all's knives Bill ,Mike, and Ike.
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Thanks Lyle!
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BWT wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 2:41 pm The rest of them.
Witte Hdw.
Water-Ville
Norvell Shapleigh
Union Cut Co
Nice assortment, some really great names there. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Thanks Ike ::tu::
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Nice ones all ::tu::

Here's one that I like.
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Nice Dimitri ::tu:: ::tu::
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Thanks Bill ::handshake::
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I had picked up this tip bolster Utica a while back at a flea market for a buck. I had some time to kill over the winter, so it got redone with new handle material. The original handle material was .050" thick plastic with an advertiser. It got redone with a piece of thin osage orange that I had been saving for just such a job. Because it is a Utica, is is probably made a little better than a lot of the tip bolster pens you see. It is 3 and 1/8 inches long with brass liners.
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Well, OLDE CUTLER, it was a nice knife but with those new covers you put that one on the top shelf. ::tu::
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Osage Orange really dressed that one up!
I have one identical to it that advertised a Miami tourist shop. Normally I wouldn't have thought the knife worth the effort, but now you've got me rethinking that!
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Curley Cutlery.
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JohnR wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:16 pm Curley Cutlery.
John, that is a real beauty, some great, rich looking bone on that one! Curley knives are hard to come by, and you've added an exceptional one. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:21 pm
JohnR wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:16 pm Curley Cutlery.
John, that is a real beauty, some great, rich looking bone on that one! Curley knives are hard to come by, and you've added an exceptional one. ::tu:: ::tu::
Thank you Ike. ::tu:: ::tu::
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