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Comment by Jan Carter on April 4, 2012 at 19:16

This is kind of a cool little knife.  It has excellent snap, a half stop...walks and talks very well.  A friend picked it up for Donnie it says JF Novelty CO.   New Yoork NY and the blade says China.  Anyone know where new Yoork is?

Comment by Jan Carter on March 30, 2012 at 17:48

Never a waste of money on a knife Tobias, it is always and experience and it looks like you had a great adventure

Comment by Tobias Gibson on March 30, 2012 at 9:40

I was visiting Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg for the first time.  While I spent most of my knife money at Smoky Mountain Knife Works, i Could help but waste a little on these  knives.

Okay I actually got that one at SMKW.  I is by Elk Ridge.  3.5 inch tooth pick.   Bought the Redneck shot glass at a souvenir shop in pigeon Forge.

My four other shot glasses.  The black one is actually from Harlan Kentucky is made out of coal!  The knives are similar to the knives made by Royal Crest.  The big one was around $6-7  the small one around $3-5 depending on the store.

Almost every place had knives with names on the back but as they had no "Toby" knives, I settled for "Hillbilly" on the big knife and "Army" on the small.  Only one place I visited had the knives with a blank back scale.  I got one of those for my nephew "A.J."    Despite my sister's chagrin, I'm proud to call myself a Hillbilly, however I prefer the more sophisticated term of "Mountain William"

Another view of the front of the souvenir knives.

Comment by Jan Carter on March 27, 2012 at 18:45

My pleasure Mel.  I love to research!!

Comment by Mel Jones on March 26, 2012 at 19:49

Thanks Jan. I have looked at their sight before. It has tons of info on German knives. American seems to have made good knives for the price. Too bad there is so little info. I like to collect old Pal Cutlery pocket knives but there is also little info on them, generally around WW2. They became Remington later. The German hunter was a good find and I prize it in my collection. Thanks for your hard work.

Comment by Jan Carter on March 26, 2012 at 19:33

Mel,

What little I can find...There was a company in Solingen Germany named American Knife Company.  There does not appear to be a lot of info on them but I have a lead that can possibly give you some info on them.  There is a fantastic site named World knives.  They have some wonderful resources about the knives of that area.  Here is the link.  Be sure to scroll down to the bottom where they have about 100 more links to information. The interesting part is they have an email address down there and it appears they will help you with determining some dates for the company.

http://www.worldknives.com/info/knives-of-solingen-germany-43.html

Comment by Jan Carter on March 22, 2012 at 18:53

Mel,

Congrats, that NRA knife is wonderful.  The estate find is terrific.  I also never find that stuff :(

Comment by Lee Saunders on March 20, 2012 at 16:52

Sorry for my morning typing Mel.  I meant I really like the pistola.  I would lame it on my keyoard but I midtype anyway.

The grips on that pistol are sweet!  And I would say that you got  real good deal on the knife & sheath.

Comment by Mel Jones on March 20, 2012 at 12:01

Unusual for me to find good quality knives at Estate sales but couldn't pass this one up.  It was priced at $45 and I got it for $30.  I hope that is reasonable since I know little about the German company American Knife.  The knife appears new except someone attempted to sharpen it and didn't do a very smooth job.  If anyone has some history on them I would appreciate the info.

Comment by Lee Saunders on March 20, 2012 at 10:53

Take me to some Estate Sales mel!  Nice knife and I reall like the pitola.  Beautiful buys.

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