Vintage Barehead Jacks

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A great bunch of knives, Roger. Really beautiful. The Valley Forge with the unique (to me) can opener is quite nice. ::tu::

Thanks for showing some fine knives, Barry. ::tu::
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Original Maher & Grosh 2 blade Yankee Whittler.
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Maher & Grosh jack with GAR etch.
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A little smaller Maher & Grosh jack.
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The Texas Planter.
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Maher & Grosh boy's knife.
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Another.
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Maher & Grosh big jack.4 1/8".
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Wow Roger, Museum quality Knives. A truly incredible collection. Thanks for posting.
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Thanks Barry,much appreciated.
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Man there are some beautiers posted!! Roger your M&G knives are always great to see. Love that Stabber jack Mike and Barry that Napanoch is a looker.

All the others posted are beauties too. Thanks to all for posting their knives, great thread.

Here are a few of mine.
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This Remington R1072 showed up in my mailbox unexpectedly. A surprise gift from a friend.
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What a friend, and knife ::tu:: ::tu::
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There are some fantastic knives posted in this thread.

In case anyone hasn't noticed, because he's scattered them all over AAPK, Roger has one of the greatest vintage knife collections extant.

In all my years of collecting Robeson knives with a generous, if not reckless, budget, I was never able to obtain decent examples of Robeson's heavy BULLDOG or Beavertail jacks and Roger has near mint examples of each and he's not a Robeson collector, he just collects great knives.

His M&G etched knives are unbelievable.

He should publish a coffee table book with full color photographs.

Actually, AAPK, using multiple sources could publish such a book that would be incomparable.

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Charlie, I am extremely flattered.I don't keep all the knives I post.Some move on to new homes.
Someone could put a real nice picture book together with the knives posted over the years on this threads.I know a new book is on the horizon by one of our regulars,and we have other books and articles authored by several members.
I feel privileged to be able to share my knives with the folks here. ::handshake::
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peanut740 wrote:Charlie, I am extremely flattered.I don't keep are the knives I post.Some move on to new homes.
Someone could put a real nice picture book together with the knives posted over the years on this threads.I know a new book is on the horizon by one of our regulars,and we have other books and articles authored by several members.
I feel privileged to be able to share my knives with the folks here. ::handshake::
I've bought a lot of those knives. You have a way of coming across the "good stuff" ::handshake::
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peanut740 wrote:Charlie, I am extremely flattered.I don't keep are the knives I post.Some move on to new homes.
Someone could put a real nice picture book together with the knives posted over the years on this threads.I know a new book is on the horizon by one of our regulars,and we have other books and articles authored by several members.
I feel privileged to be able to share my knives with the folks here. ::handshake::
I've bought a lot of those "good stuff" thanks. ::handshake::
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Yes this has been quite a show. Thanks for showing. I too was thinking it would be nice to see them in a magazine or some format to just flip through them.
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Outstanding examples posted here recently! :D
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Miller Bro's wrote:Outstanding examples posted here recently! :D
I'll second that! ::tu:: ::tu::
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Here's another one I forgot I had, Walden Co-op Grange knife
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2 more, E. B. Sears dynamite knife tool.
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galvanic1882 wrote:2 more, E. B. Sears dynamite knife tool.
Very cool Mike. Tell me about them. Whats going on with the choil? And the little extra piece?
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The coil was to crimp the cap on the fuse I believe. Not sure about the tool. Don't know anything about using it.
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Whatever it's for. Very cool and thanks for showing us ::handshake::
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