Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

This forum is dedicated to the discussion and display of old knives. The rich history of all the many companies that made them through the early years will be found here as well as many fine examples of the cutlers art. Share pictures of your old knives and your knowledge here!
Post Reply
User avatar
peanut740
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 7575
Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:32 pm
Location: Ohio, along the river
Contact:

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by peanut740 »

I H,They don't get much better than that.Hell of a find. ::tu::
Roger
User avatar
carrmillus
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 6293
Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:22 pm
Location: tupelo, miss.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by carrmillus »

orvet wrote:Here is a knife & spoon knife Tommy sent me last month along with a bunch of other awesome old Camillus knives. This is probably my favorite of them all.
Thanks again Tommy! ::tu::
..........just found this post, glad you liked 'em, dale!!!............. ::tu:: ...................
Beardlord
Posts: 3
Joined: Thu Jul 02, 2015 2:41 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Beardlord »

I bought this tool kit at a garage sale. I can't seem to find this kit anywhere on the Internet. Anyone care to enlighten me on whether it's collectable. Only the knife attachment has markings and it says stainless china.
Attachments
IMG_20150701_135541099.jpg
cato
Posts: 1025
Joined: Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:34 pm

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by cato »

PICKED UP THIS LITTLE STAG SET, HUBERTUS
Attachments
il_fullxfull.886189240_lc4d.jpg
il_fullxfull.885955353_mgyf.jpg
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by FRJ »

What a great kit that is! Good one cato. ::tu::
Joe
thumper106
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:05 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by thumper106 »

Hello,I ammichael andiam new to this forum i have aquired a folding set and i need some help identifing it. Any help would be appriecated.the knife that is with it is a merrimac cullery ge germany thank all
Attachments
case
case
0218161435.jpg
0218161435a.jpg
0218161436.jpg
0218161436a.jpg
0218161436b.jpg
0218161436b.jpg
0218161436c.jpg
0218161437a.jpg
User avatar
peanut740
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 7575
Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:32 pm
Location: Ohio, along the river
Contact:

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by peanut740 »

All Goins has on it is ca.1939.He goes on and says Knox-All was stamped on bolsters of small barlow knives and Knox-All was a trademark of E.C.Simmons.Don`t know if they also imported eating sets.
Roger
User avatar
RobesonsRme.com
Posts: 9887
Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:44 pm
Location: The Heart of Dixie.
Contact:

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by RobesonsRme.com »

Around about and after WWI, German knife manufacturers, in a effort to neutralize the negative aspects of all things "German", starting marketing knives to America with decidedly American sounding names.

The Merrimack River runs between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

What could be more New England and American sounding than that?

The set probably dates from that time period.

However, the German makers had been using English and American sounding names prior to that in order to capitalize on the popularity of Sheffield cutlery.

Those clever Huns.

Charlie Noyes
DE OPPRESSO LIBER

"...Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons ___but they are helpless against our prayers. "

Sidlow Baxter
User avatar
btrwtr
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 5061
Joined: Thu May 24, 2012 11:53 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by btrwtr »

Here are a few more eating sets.

Colonial Sport Pal, Pic-Nic-Kit slot type hobo set

Colonial three piece set in plastic case. Not a slot knife. Each piece has it's own shell type handles.

Rather large Muller and Schmidt (not marked with print, only logo) travel kit in leather case.

Wayne
Attachments
IMG_2859.JPG
IMG_2861.JPG
IMG_2862.JPG
IMG_2865.JPG
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Wayne

Please visit My AAPK store https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/catalog/btrwtr
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

Nice ones Wayne! ::tu::

What is the handle material on the Muller and Schmidt?
AAPK Janitor
369
kootenay joe
Posts: 13373
Joined: Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:36 pm
Location: West Kootenays, B.C.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by kootenay joe »

thumper your Merrimac set is a good one especially as it has the 'tumbler' (drinking glass that is not glass). Most of these sets of eating utensils do not have a container for drinking from. Your pics are not good so nature of the handle material cannot be guessed at. Some sets have ivory handles but more are imitation ivory.
kj
User avatar
btrwtr
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 5061
Joined: Thu May 24, 2012 11:53 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by btrwtr »

Miller Bro`s wrote:Nice ones Wayne! ::tu::

What is the handle material on the Muller and Schmidt?
The handles are some type of plastic not celluloid.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Wayne

Please visit My AAPK store https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/catalog/btrwtr
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

OK thanks :wink:

Here is one that I have that is celluloid, I am just waiting for it to go " poof " ::paranoid:: :lol:
Attachments
aerial.jpg
AAPK Janitor
369
User avatar
btrwtr
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 5061
Joined: Thu May 24, 2012 11:53 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by btrwtr »

Dimitri that Aerial sure looks fine. Hope the celluloid sticks around for another 100 or so. Love the auto motif on the handle. What's on the pile side?

Wayne
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Wayne

Please visit My AAPK store https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/catalog/btrwtr
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

Thanks Wayne I hope it lasts another 100 years too!

I don`t have a picture on file but the other side has a picture of a steam ship on it.
AAPK Janitor
369
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by FRJ »

Some really nice knife kits recently, guys.

Here is my first eating set in this style.
Thanks.
Attachments
DSCN0727.JPG
DSCN0728.JPG
DSCN0730.JPG
DSCN0732.JPG
DSCN0734.JPG
DSCN0737.JPG
DSCN0739.JPG
DSCN0741.JPG
DSCN0743.JPG
Joe
Nigel
Posts: 15
Joined: Fri May 13, 2016 5:22 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Nigel »

Does anyone know the value of a Robesons Pocket Outfit #50 in very good condition, from about 1930-1950? under the Robeson discussion, there are pictures posted of one of these kits, but that one in at least 20-30 years older than mine-
any insight would be greatly appreciated, with thanks..
Attachments
P1010298.jpg
Nigel
Posts: 15
Joined: Fri May 13, 2016 5:22 am

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Nigel »

more photos here
Attachments
P1010296.jpg
P1010297.jpg
P1010299.jpg
P1010300.jpg
User avatar
orvet
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 19336
Joined: Tue May 16, 2006 6:23 am
Location: Willamette Valley, Oregon

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by orvet »

Nice kit Nigel! Welcome to AAPK! ::welcome::
I have the same kit in the same leather wallet but the name is A.K.B. The Kit, or something like that. I will have to find it and take some pics. I found mine in a house I rented in the 1970s. I had forgot I even had it.
Dale
AAPK Administrator

Please visit my AAPK store: www.allaboutpocketknives.com/orvet

Job 13:15

"Buy more ammo!" - Johnnie Fain
“Evil is Powerless If The Good are Unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

Waking up this old thread with this Camillus horn handle take apart set............
Attachments
3-1.jpg
AAPK Janitor
369
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by FRJ »

Here's an old fork and a corkscrew that apparently belonged to a set.
Attachments
DSCN0049.JPG
DSCN0054.JPG
DSCN0056.JPG
Joe
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

FRJ wrote:Here's an old fork and a corkscrew that apparently belonged to a set.
Joe, that one has a lot of class ::tu::
AAPK Janitor
369
User avatar
Miller Bro's
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 11618
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:22 pm
Location: Earth

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by Miller Bro's »

I don't think one of these kits have been shown yet.
Attachments
6-2_zpsd55ds6od.jpg
AAPK Janitor
369
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by FRJ »

Thank you, Dimitri.
Unique kit you showed last.
Corkscrews are rough on covers, (cracking) but this one has held up.
Joe
User avatar
OLDE CUTLER
Gold Tier
Gold Tier
Posts: 4290
Joined: Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:11 pm
Location: South Dakota

Re: Vintage Tool Kit Knives & Folding Eating Sets

Post by OLDE CUTLER »

This is an interesting thread, these old tool kit knives are really neat. I only have a couple, pictured below.
Daniel Peres
IMG_1742.JPG
IMG_1743.JPG
IMG_1745.JPG
A newer Case XXChanger
IMG_2261.JPG
"Sometimes even the blind chicken finds corn"
Post Reply

Return to “Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days”