All About Pocket Knives

I've always been a big fan of Native American artifacts. Arrowheads, Axe heads, etc...

I have maybe 10 at most. A few were given to me by a friend who hunts them. I bought the rest at estate auctions. I've searched for them also, but I can't seem to train my eyes to see things on the ground. (I really stink at mushroom hunting too ) .

I'd like to start learning more about these and get into collecting them a bit. (Wouldn't have to worry about rust as much )

Anybody collect things non-knife related. I've considered old fishing lures too, but I suppose the line must be drawn somewhere eh? ...or does it?

Bryan

When my Grandfather died I got his old Zippos from the 50's & 60's and that started my Zippo collection. I have about 20 now.

i have collected indian objects for many years. texas is rich with things from the past. mostly found when i was hunting game. lots of slow walking and looking but it sometime pays of with a nice point or tool. knives let me do my exploring in a little more hospitable atmosphere. i just can't walk as well as i did when i was younger. i think if you like something enough to study and collect, it does'nt matter what it is.
johnnie

there are many books on the native american tools. beware though, there are many counterfeiters in this field.

Hey Bryan:

Man you really issue the great questions. I can remember going with my dad to a farm liquidation auction in the forties, I think that hooked me. I have a small batch of O gauge train stuff, a sizable group of nascar stuff, have my eye on a banner signed by Dale Sr. and Keven Harvick on the back from Ontario Speedway. Have about 40 or 50 recurve bows along with arrows, quivers and other tackle. Have several flint arrow heads and spear points came from living in eastern Oregon desert for a few years.
Ive got several R.R. lanterns and a treasure from England WW2 vintage,
a hand folded blackout lantern. It was used during air raids three sides have red glass with the remaining one offering light for kids to study by or for reading etc. I will stop after mentioning a few sets of spurs, cowboy chaps and several guns and swords. Okay adios for now.
W.B.

A good thread to start.

I like old woodworkin, loggin, farm, and hand tools. They're hangin all over my back porch and tool shed.

I've got about 3 or 4 hundred old bottles. I think knives has sorta replaced that hobby though. I'll still pick up a rare or unusual one sometimes.

I collect old or unusual musical instruments. (Kids in my classes are facinated with 'em. I usually can fix up old clunkers and play 'em.)

I've also been pickin up wierd pieces of wood and cool lookin rocks for years. Got about 25 gallons of rocks. They're a little less expensive than knives and musical instruments.

I also collect padlocks. I have found them pretty easy to attain in good working order, and the old, real old mechanisms are fascinating.
Now for something completely different. Our astute leader, a few days ago sent me a young Aussie lads request for help in returning a glean to his high polished collection of, CORKSCREWS" I thought that was cool and unusual.-Glenn
I just love that paranoid emoticon.
Looks like he's watching a very long tennis volley. Hahaha
OK, I'm TIRED.

Hi Glen:

Can you shed any light on this one. Year etc.,It does function.
W.B.

Edit; According to Bill the Lobo's source it was probably made around turn of last century. Had nothing to do with US ARMY. They are becoming proliferent on E-Bay being touted as Civil War Vintage. Bills link has the whole deal. Evidently they were not a very secure lock. I would assume from what I read that even tho its neat its still a POS.

Thanks for the info Bill. The truth may sting but it is the best way.

WB.
First of all, after thinking a while longer, I see your views and direction pertaining to the web site posting. I only want AAPK to be strong,,,,for us. I have seen your name and posts and I have learned from you. If for any reason, we're "not good",,,I apologize for any words taken offense to. I am doggone glad to be a member here, this is a friendly and non-crony place for knifers and I want to go back to back w/ members and never toe to toe, does that make sense? As for the post, I only felt what was in my heart, to me, it just didn't "feel" right. I hope you understand.

OK, WOW !!! as for the lock, I don't know now, but I will, I am at a show, away from my office, when I get back later today, I will do some research and send you a pm to prompt you to look at the answer for all to see. RU OK with that? If I cannot find the answer, I will consult "the experts" (mainly my step-father) and we'll find out. AND<<< I would love to know what it is, and I'd drool on it. VERY NICE .
WB, do you have the key for it? If so, could you please post it? And, by the way, great photos. I am initially thinkin' it's a WWI issue lock, but, thts just my first impression. I will return your post.
Thanks for everything, including a really cool lock. I don't have anything that nice, old, preserved and obviously used by the army. Having a stamped purpose on the lock is the coup-de-grace of locks. -Glenn

Hi Glenn;
As I said before no umbrage taken about anything previous.

Im to old to get mad. And to ornery not to disagree from time to time.

Looking forward to your forthcoming info on lock. I do not have original key. Have access to one that works in it. It is not Army issue.
W.B.

Mossdancer (W.B.) and Glenn,
Hope I'm not butting in here...

I thought you might be interested in this link...

http://home.southwind.net/~drcwks/usarmywarded.html

Bill

Well, I do a fair amount of diving so I have a collection of seashells, including every species of abalone shell in California. There is the Red, White, Black, Pink (corrogated), Green, Flat, Pinto, and Threaded Abalones. Today it is only legal to take the Red Abalone and only from the center of the Golden Gate Bridge, north to the Oregon border.
I also have an assortment of shells that are unusual, with large barnicles. I have some Abalone shells from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the only shells I bought. I have some sea urchins, I like the internal shell they have once the spines are removed. My ofice is filled with shells, glass floats from Japanese nets and other marine stuff.

Mossdancer,

It's still a neat old lock. I hope I open and close that well when I'm a 100 years old.

Canis Lupus

I also collect rocks & minerals and some fossils. The mountains in some areas were sea beds at one time. It is weird to see layers of sea shells in rock on a mountain top. I did a lot of backpacking & caving years back. Everybody always accused me of putting rocks in their packs to bring back!
*It is a Federal/State Law now for bringing rocks out of a cave, Bad Karma.

I collected coins & paper notes for years and still do, if I run across a U.S. key date or an U.S. oddball number. The Mint has got into the collector business Big Time now.

I collect old farm tools.......corn shellers, hay trolleys, log dogs, meat grinders, etc. Anything that helped an old time farm work.

We also collect trees, mainly native American. Better yet, Tennesseean. Yellowwood is one of my favorite trees. It has white blooms like large groups of grapes in the early Spring.
But, the Boss did make me plant a few Japanese Acers and two Chinese Dogwoods. She was talkin' about another this morning.

I like old and modern official Boy Scout stuff, uniforms, patches, equipment, books, etc. and of course the knives!

Last but not least, I collect bullets and shotgun shells. 45-70 GOVT being my favorite out of them all, but I like/reload an old 38 S&W round for target practice and GP.

WB, thats more than I hoped to attain.
Bill, no way buttn in, I (we?) always welcome factual and moreover helpful info. See what one gets for assuming that because a lock says "US ARMY" it is?? Open mouth, insert foot. Good try Glenn.
Hey Bill, did you know about that site, or did you search it?? Always interested to know where reference comes from.
WB, I venture, the delay was beneficial here.
My head still hurts............2Mucho info.
I guess you know your getting up there when "naps" sound good again.
WB, do you collect locks too? That -warded?-(June, Wally and Jerry Mather's as...The Beav !) Get it?)) is pretty and came out of nowhere.
Another Ping Pong match,,,wil it EVER end ??

Hey Glenn;
Dont collect locks, do have a few, will post if I can find them.

Damn, its really weird as I also have a pretty vast array of rocks. Got a couple really nice chunks of Turquoise. Have some obsidian I brought out of Glass Butte in Eastern Oregon 20 years ago. They have probably made that illegal now also. Got some polished jasper, banded agate and others from the 70's. I really like petrified wood. Have little medium and big examples of several different types. My wife once made some comment regarding me turning into stone in a few years and she would roll me into the middle of the garden and sell me as a petrified human.
W.B.

Glenn,
I'd like to say I had the info right here in my cabeza, and appear sharp...but I searched for it, like anybody else , because I was curious.

W. B. gives new meaning to getting stoned.

Bill

Hey you guys;

To enlighten you. I wrote the lock guy at his site requesting further info as he had the time to research. Will let you know when I hear something.

Pretty much have my office torn asunder. Think I will ask Bryan about selling some of this stuff on want ads.

Glenn; found a little less than two pounds of scouting patchs and other scout thingies, they are all within 15-20 years old. Lots of duplicates If you want em, the shipping plus five bucks. Let me know and I will send them least expensive.
W.B.

WB, thanks for the offer, I'm game, check your pm's. Leme know how much and how you'd like the moola. Any asunder procurements are gooood.

AND,,, Time to check the score at the AAPK Ping-Pong olympics: oh my, it's the same score from yesterday, do these guys sleep?
Perhaps he's seeking asylum??
Those doggone cigarettes are gonna get me.

After having given it great thought. I just dont think its ping pong, Interest would have waned by now. Almost surely it must be watching bikinis. Only thing I can think of that men never grow weary of doing.
As I told my wife over forty years ago, as long as im looking I havent found it. Heck, forty years ago some of them even looked back.
W.B.

EDIT: last sentence probably should have been fifty years ago.

Glenn;
Here are a couple of photos.

Thanks for your new subject post re: Vets.
W.B.

SLEDS...SLEDS...

You talk about watching bikinis for 50 years, and I get pictures of sleds...

SHEESH.

Bill

Bet I could pack a lot into that truck, including the sled, and some filled bikinis. Doggone it, somehow I am thinkin' it's not part of the deal. If it is, I'll be on a plane in an hour. On second thought , it is hot here at the beach . I may have been mistaken, they just keep looking in unison , kinda threw me. And, they never close their eyes either ,,,clockwork orange ? HEY !!!, thats my sister,,

PS, I qualified (w/Edits) my label(s) at the vet post.

Hey;
Found it, dont know if it would be considered farm stuff or a knife.
Both I guess, It fits over four fingers of right hand, sharpened with a flat grind sort of like a razor. Here are some photos.
W.B.

I collect antique corkscrews and a few other wine related antiques. The corkscrew-knife, or is that knife-corkscrew, is how I became interested in knives in the first place. Most of my collection is packed and ready for my impending move. Just in case you missed some, here is a retrospective of some previous postings. I will post some different ones hopefully in the near future. s-k

Again, sorry for the repetition but I can only post old photos at the moment. I hope I am not boring you... a few Victorian corkscrews from my collection.