All About Pocket Knives

Wow!!......awesome finds Fella's!!

Anyone ever see one of these It's a Mastercraft japanesse doctor pill-crusher and whats weird about it is the secondary blade is not ground to an edge

It's a pipe smokers knife, dogg. End is for tamping the tobacco, blunt blade is for cleaning the bowl and long rod is for cleaning out the stem. I've been trying to get my hands on an Imperial cracked ice version for years. Cool find, i've seen some that were made in Sheffield and Germany also.

WOWZAH......knice scores gino & Iron Hoarder!! That's what I live for....

WB56;thats what I thought also but I did some research and two differant web sites one from Mastercraft which is the manufacturer said it was a Doctors pill-crusher

Well, i'll be darned. That's a new one on me, dogg. I reckon if the manufacturer calls it a pill crusher, that must be what it is. Maybe that's why I havn't been able to score one of the Imperials. I've been lookin' for the wrong thing all this time!
Neat little knife by whatever name ya call it.

Ya I know what your saying but thats what they call it

Then the unsharpened secondary blade is a spatula.

Thanx Vikingdog what do you think a spatula blade is used for?

I have found that you need to hit all the little antique, knick-knack, and collectible stores scattered around in addition to the gunshops and hardware stores. I found these two, pretty decent condition USA made Old Timers, yesterday in an antique shop in northeastern NC. Schrade 12OT and 108OT; somewhere out there is the holy grail - going to luck across a 2OT one day!

Nice What are you buying them for down there?

garddogg56 wrote:Thanx Vikingdog what do you think a spatula blade is used for?

Counting pills, mixing salves, those sorts of things.

I too would have said it's a pipe smokers knife. I've never seen one of those long thin stem cleaner blades on a doctors knife.

GD, I'm not stealing them at all; paid $11 for the single blade and $16 for the three blade - that is what the old gent asked and I paid it (he said he has more at home that he is going to bring in for me to look at). Both have full blades with factory edges and are unused, but had some rust that has been cleaned, very light pitting on the 108, it will join my EDC rotation and the mint 108 I bought a month ago will go into my footlocker with the other mint knives (haven't carried the earlier 108 yet because it was mint). I also found an Ace hardware store yesterday that has a full knife case of USA and Swiss knives - not a China made in it. I will go back there and buy several of the BearMGC that are in the case - he also had Swiss Victorinox and USA Case in his display - he has the same "bad" attitude about the Chi-comm's that I have!

Colonel, that little 108 will serve you well in your EDC rotation. I carried one for years and it never came up wanting.

It's a pipe smokers knife

Maybe it does both... ....it definitely has characteristics of both.

Nice haul Gino.
That Barlow looks Camillus built.

jerryd6818 wrote: Counting pills, mixing salves, those sorts of things.

What Jerry said. Scraping powder off of a surface etc. I've seen pharmacists using a spatula to count out pills on a little tray. You'll notice that doctor's knives have the same flat end for crushing pills and sometimes a long spatula blade as the secondary for gathering the powder.

Thanx guys a pipe smokers knife was everyones first guess my wife works with a pharmacist and they I.D. it as a pill sorter

Out traveling again today, found quite a few old knives at another antique store in eastern NC. This knife is an Imperial celluloid shell handled medium jack knife (3-1/4") - bright colors on this 60's/70's era pocketknife.

Utica Featherweight Girl Scout, found in same display case as the Imperial above, both had great snap on all the blades. This one remains factory SHARP, going to have to mail my Whittling Chip card back to the BSA - failed miserably to comply with the rules while cleaning this one - band aid on my finger right now! I found a very nice, yellow handled medium stockman in the Frontier brand too, but it had NO snap at all, none - don't understand that as the knife was in good shape otherwise - but I left it in the display case.

Nice finds Old Hunter!

That's a nice glove full'o knives you have there, singin.

Thanks Red! I'm goin after these solid cells right now.

Thanks Singin; the pursuit of pocketknives is turning out to be an enjoyable affliction.

OH, those are two cool knives :envy:
This gets adictive real quick, LOL.