I finally put my Barlows in a Box.  I don't really like the box for these knives, I think I will swap out those smaller Coca-Cola knives and find something else for the Barlows, but it's better than throwing them in a cardboard box.

On the left side are various makers including Case, Boker, Maherr & Grosh and others.

On the right are my antique Russells.  All are 1800s.  I have a few more that I need to dig up that are 1920-30 Russells.

I also have a few…

Today I have two very old Sheffield pocket knives for you.

The gentleman I bought them for thought for a long time that the larger knife was an old British Navy knife.  Now he thinks it may be a pruner.

Could be.  If you remember my post about how confusing these and even Hawkbills can be when the beak has been worn a bit.

To me it does look like a Navy knife, made to get wet and cut rope.…

Don't think I showed these before....especially not the Primble barlow.

The electricians above is from the 1920s.  I spoke to the VP of the company in New Jersey.  He said his grandfather had them made for their employees as…

Well, my girl is upset with me.  Again.

She says I love my pocketknives more than I love her.  So I told her that's not true and I told her she has a sweet body....just like that antique coke bottle form knife that I bought 3 weeks ago.

She seemed a bit more peturbed, so I tried to get the subject off of knives since that seems to be her problem area!

So I told her I love her nearly as much as my favorite old 1911 handgun.

How come I have to sleep on the couch if…

An interesting collection of blades I received today.

The Ka-Bar fish knife is near mint.  Almost pristine.  The sweet yellow handles have no chips or damage.  Both blades look new as a baby's butt...never sharpened, no scratches, shiny as can be.  The Ka-Bar over Stainless tang stamp is from 1951-60, so nearly 60 years old.…

This is a Tommy Lee Byrd photo at the Paradise Show & Go. 

 A diesel truck that pulls the front wheels and runs deep in the 6s?  Way cool for me....

Well being in California I missed te big Dayton Tennessee Strawberry Festival Cruise-In but from the photos you can see they had a rockin good time!!

This weekend (May 19 & 20) we have our Annual Galt Strawberry Festivalright up the road from Sacramento.  They have a big Cruise-In and Car &…

For those who may be interested, I was looking for "Navy" knives a few months back and ran into a great company & web site out of Kennebunkport, Maine carrying all types of Nautical Antiquities.

John F. Rinaldi Nautical Antiques & Related items

They carry tons of navy and boat related "stuff" including weaponry from knives to cannon and everything in between!

Today I received their paper catalog,…

Here is another "Navy" knife, this time it is actually a USCG knife but is the same as those great old Navy knives.  Now I have a few USN, one USMC, one that someone suggested might be a US Army knife and this one...my very first Coast Guard knife.  Thank you to all of you Coast Guarders for your service!!

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So this is the second post in the Napanoch Tool Kit Series.  Just too much for one post.

The knife holds the blade securely while also having the area to add the tools (one at a time) at the opposite end from the blade.

It works best to have the blade closed when you do this !!!

So you start with the knife tang that has the NAPANOCH over KNIFE…

Well....the Napanoch tool kit made it to my house tonight.  Dang, that was fast huh??

This thing is sweet.

It is probably circa 1908 or so...anyway it is well over 100 years old!

The leather pounch is in great shape.  It folds and closes just fine with the two clips intact and working just fine!

As are the 7 little internal areas that hold the knife and tools.  Nothing is ripped or torn or mistreated at all.  This surprises the heck outta me!

So each tool…

Just wondering does anyone here buy knives frrom SharperDeals.net?

I guess it is an auction site.  I registered and I have looked around a number of times the last 6 months or so but never bid.

This time I found a couple of really nice blades so I'm just wondering if you guys have any history there??  Thanks!

Well, you can probably tell from my recent string of photos that I have already blown my May knife buying budget.  Ooooops!

So of course what was I doing yesterday?  Trolling eBay and some of my long time sellers as well as looking for something special.

Bumped right into something from a guy who has bought and sold and even traded a lot of knives, and a few guns,  with me.  And he had something that I had just recently learned about.

You know how it is when you just…

Ok, this is a different kind of knife.

I won't aggevate you making you guess....too long.

This is a pizza knife or blade or cutter.

A metal blade is in between two pieces of light but strong wood.  The entire thing has a sweet curvature on one side.  But you can see the metal in the middle even on the straight side.

I know people collect…

I think this is Portugese just because I have never seen the knife company.  Silverstenl Briggs.  I could be wrong.

I can't find anything in my books by that name so maybe someone can help me.…

I bought this knife for one reason.  OK, for 1.5 reasons.

I don't have a Toothpick and this one was cheap.  Got it for like $8.99.

The guy advertised it as a Fisher, but it has no scaler blade, so I thibnk it's a toothpick.

Plus it has that really cool shield on the handle in the shape of a whale.

So maybe it is a fish knife after all??…

Recently I also bought an old, small 2 blade I-XL knife.

I-XL goes overboard on this knife with advertising themselves.

There is the stamped I-XL on the bolster above.  I like how they squared off the bolster in order to stamp the…

I admit.  I bought these knives because the handles are so beautiful.  They are alike, but different. 

And both are hot hot hot.…

I have a couple of modern pruning knives that I bought in the last year and i figutre maybe I should post them, see how they stack up against the old ones.

Aesthetically I prefer the old ones, but the new ones both seem to be stronger and better built.…

A few more of the knives I received just yesterday:

The knife below I believe is a Pruner.  It has a tip much like the Hawkbill, but the handle of the Hawkbill makes it stand out.

This knife is from Colonial.  An inexpensive knife, but interesting because of the 2nd blade.  Most pruners I have seen only have one blade.  The 2nd blade here is a screwdriver blade.  It has a factory edge, but I don't believe either blade ever got sharpened.

I can't complain.  This knife…