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Comment by Syd Carr on December 8, 2015 at 13:27

Here is a link to a Kinfolks collectors webpage with old catalogs: http://kinfolksinc.com/ 

Perhaps you can find info on your knife there.

Comment by Ron Cooper on December 8, 2015 at 10:03

Toby, you pretty much nailed it. It could easily be called a lobster style gentlemen's folder with Toledo scales. As far as dating it goes it would just be a shot in the dark. From the looks of it you really got a beauty there. Congratulations, Doug! 

One final note. I have seen Kinfolks just like yours go for between 75 and 100 dollars in Ebay auctions. You have a real treasure!

Comment by Tobias Gibson on December 8, 2015 at 8:14

All I can offer is that the pattern is sometimes called a "lobster knife" and often their are scissors instead of the smaller pen blade.   (I've also heard them called Toledo's as the fancy scales were very popular among lobster knives made in Toledo, Spain.)

I might also add that is a really beautiful example!  I don't know enough about Kinfolks to even take an educated guess on if this is pre or post WWII but I know a great looking knife when I see one!

In Memoriam Comment by Doug Webber on December 8, 2015 at 1:41

Picked up this Kinfolks Gentleman's knife recently. Very nicely made...has GERMANY etched on the pen blade. I'd appreciate any info on this one.

Comment by Michael Squier on October 25, 2015 at 8:24

Neat page Jan. His knives are very nice, not my taste for most of them, but check out those sheaths!! very nice work there too. Thats some noce craftsmanship there, knives and sheaths.

Comment by Syd Carr on July 14, 2015 at 21:24

Tobias, welcome back from the "fishing fever" thread(s).

That is exactly like the knife my buddy's dad had & used. Wood handled, weird looking wide blade, only his was more beat up, and had more "patina" than yours. I have no idea if it was an Old Hickory or not, but yours looks the same to me as his did. Thanks for the photo.

Comment by Jan Carter on July 14, 2015 at 20:56

Have you all ever checked out this pattern page?

http://www.jayfisher.com/Patterns_Knives_Custom.htm 

Comment by Tobias Gibson on June 30, 2015 at 9:07

I do have a fixed blade Sampler that is made by Old Hickory (Ontario)

Comment by Syd Carr on June 29, 2015 at 21:35

Very cool Tobias, a rather unknown and unappreciated frame IMHO.

I grew up in a town in the middle of a cotton growing area, so I've seen a few of them. When I was a kid a friend's father, who worked at the local gin, (where raw cotton was processed and bales made), he had an old fixed blade version he carried in a belt sheath, always had it on him. I remember asking him about it and he said he used it to check that the bales were being processed by the machinery correctly before doing a  full "run". Didn't think much of it at the time, just an old funny looking knife, but I can't think of that man without remembering that knife. Wish I had paid more attention at the time, but who knew? It looked a lot like that RR except it wasn't a slipjoint.

Vintage versions still show up at the local swap & yard sales in that town from time to time. However, it being an arid area, (cotton likes arid)), I seldom haunt those locales these days, I'm just too acclimated to a coastal climate now.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on June 29, 2015 at 21:05

my latest Rough Rider is a Cotton Sampler.  Many knives are used for sampling cotton, typically sheepfoot and hawkbill styles but I've always found this style the most interesting!

The knife wasn't used in the field but buy potential buyers of bales of hay.  The blade is designed to worked into the bail and then cotton is somehow twisted around that dull section of the blade at the tang.  Somehow the  experienced cotton buyer could then determine the grade of the cotton based on this sampling.  Don't ask me how they do it because I have no idea!  All I know is it is cool looking knife and I've finally got one I can afford!  I hope Rough Rider makes it a couple other handle materials!

Details:

Rough Rider 1422  Cotton Sampler

·440A stainless steel blade

·Brown appaloosa smooth bone handles

·Brass pins and liners

·Nickel silver shield and ringed bolsters

·Lanyard hole

·3" Blade

·Blade width: 7/8

·Blade thickness: 1/16"

·4-1/8" Closed

·Made in China

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