Broken, Battered, Beat-Up, Bruised But Beautiful Old Knives

[gringo]

here is a beast that bit me last night...dang...that tiny clip blade is damaged...but sharp...
it appears someone was cleaning a battery...incorrectly...at least i hope it was 12 volt.

[Miller Bro's]

More than 12 volts did that!

[orvet]

It looks like someone got a good jolt!
Twelve volts can cause a lot of damage, but I think it was likely more than 12 volts that fried that poor knife!

[trail]

Maybe just a chip - but could have been voltage that got this one too. After all, it is an electrician's knife. This one looks old enough to have helped win the war.

[wazu013]

Here's an old Cat that was given as a safety award to employees of Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna, N.Y.
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[vikingdog]

Northfield top of photo, Empire beneath it. Both are missing their shields. The Northfield is missing a blade, the Empire is missing two of the three blades but the remaining one has great snap to it yet.

[Miller Bro's]

I like them bone and stag handles Mike

[vikingdog]

Thank you Dimitri. Imagine what they looked like when they were new.

[trail]

Old Robeson peanut. Somebody used this one hard. Maybe he only had one knife, but it was a good 'un.

[jerryd6818]

This old Schatt & Morgan has gone a mile or two in a few pockets.

[Miller Bro's]

Here are some old beaters..............

[jerryd6818]

Yeah, so is this Boker and the Baldwin. Both have been around the block a time or two.

[Joe Dirt]

That old Boker's a sweet one, Jerry!
I'd probably still carry it.

..... Joe

[FRJ]

Here's some old knives that fit in here.

[FRJ]

A few more. Thanks.

These were great old knives. I pack some of them sometimes.

[Miller Bro's]

I like the Ivory handles on the John Petty knife Joe

[FRJ]

Thanks Demitri. I didn't think of them as ivory. Thats nice to know.
That Ed. Wusthof knife is built like a tank. They put some strang material on for the covers. If they had used something durable the knife would have never made this thread.

[wazu013]

Here's an odd group of classics.
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[cattaraugus57]

wow! some really great ones posted guys!
here's 2 for now...

[knifegirl888]

Here is one that was a beauty in it's day. Alexander Sheffield 1850-1878. 4" 6 blade congress, ivory with pinched bolsters. "Ed" scratched his name and something else I can't read in the ivory.

[trail]

I posted this one on the old and obscure thread, but it fits in here as well, so I took a new picture. Kings Kwality. The story of this brand is lost in the years, but it looks to have been a decent knife. Somebody got their money's worth out of it.

[trail]

This Kutmaster barlow is literally bent. I don't know how you do something like this to a knife, but somebody managed. Amazingly, it seems to have withstood it well. Says a lot for the knives of the day.

[galvanic1882]

How about this 1940's Italian picklock switchblade. I love the older ones and this one has seen use!!!

[trail]

Is that blood stains on the guard???

[galvanic1882]

Thats funny!!! No it is the compound that they use to build up the area before putting the middle piece of the guard.

Mike