All About Pocket Knives

A few "timber scribes", "rase", "raze", or "race" knives. L to R(bottom pic)
1."Hammer Brand" tang area, "New York Knife Co." on reverse. Stamped:"GOLDINE",(brand name for brass handle material) very tiny on handle.
3-9/16"
2. Vom Cleff , Germany? England? (Looks English.)"Warranted" on blade shank, no real tang. 3-9/16"
**No liners on 1 or 2
3. Camillus, 3-line on blade, no real tang. Pattern #1007 on reverse of blade shank 3-5/8" , iron liners
4. Camillus, 3-line in tang "area". 3-11/16", no pattern stamp, iron liners
**3 and 4 blade shape slightly different from one another
J.O'.

First time seeing one, a might different. What are they used for?

Used for marking trees to be cut, also called a "timber scribe". Or anything made of wood, like barrels and etc.

........mine is not as old as I thought!!...it is a long line stamp(1960-1976) and it has rosewood handles!!..... ..............

Those are some gorgeous knives! I've been meaning to add one to my collection, but they tend to be a little on the pricey side, and when I could afford one, I was broke at the time.

Who still makes them? I see now, they all have huge handguards. So far, the only known maker is Mikov out of the Czech Republic. When, back in the heyday of American logging, basically every cutlery firm (and many hardware distributors rebranding those knives) had one in the catalog.

There is a now inactive AAPK member that has a nice selection of timber scribe or rase knives. And there are others here that own a few.

I'll do a search for the thread in which they were posted.

viewtopic.php?f=35&t=39046&hilit=timber+scribe

Charlie