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Permalink Reply by Ron Cooper on July 26, 2013 at 4:44

Wow! This last pic of the fixed blades in the case marked "Camp Knives" just blew my socks right off! Wowsa! Just, WOWSA!

How exciting! Really appreciate all of the pics, Jan! Please keep 'em coming. I'm living vicariously through you right now.

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on July 26, 2013 at 19:14

The show opened to the public at noon with folks already there

Best pic of the day is Wyatt

We had a table with the Museum

David Anthony and his lovely wife spent the day.  One of my favorite authors, representing Knife World, David did a small seminar on knives

The history this man brings to his table is just enough to make you want more LOL

Blind Horse knives had a table behind us.  I need to check this knife out some more tomorrow!

JBF Champlin had a magnificent set up

Our own Carl Bradshaw and his grandfather were here today.  What a wonderful couple of young men!

Got a number of advertising knife pics, this one is my favorite for the day

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on July 26, 2013 at 19:16

Plenty more to come folks!  Sorry but there is no internet service with 1/4 mile of the show LOL!!!  Imagine my panic, so I took alot of pics to share over the next couple days and will do the same tomorrow

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on July 26, 2013 at 19:50

Great photos Jan and we sure do appreciate it! As Ron said keep them coming as you can! What a lot of fun!

Permalink Reply by Ron Cooper on July 26, 2013 at 23:12

I think you're right, Jan. That pic of little Wyatt holding a bushel basket worth of knives is absolutely priceless! He's sure a good looking young knife collector. The ladies had better watch out for him in another 15 years or so. And I sure do like that little 1963 Miracle Whip advertising knife!

A BIG iKC Howdy to Carl and his Grandpa! Glad they got to make it to the show.

I sure wish I could thumb through one of those books on the NKCA Museum table. What's between the covers of those books I spy on the table next to you, Miss Jan?

If you happened to skim over this price list real fast you may want to take another look?

*****CHECK THESE PRICES OUT!!!*****

Most of these Northfield knives WERE $9 or $10 for A DOZEN!!!!!

*****Jan, if you can, please find out what year that price sheet was printed in???

And, finally! Thanks again for the fine reporting and pictures of the event! You rock, Miss Jan!

KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Dave Taylor on July 27, 2013 at 10:51

Ron, I see 71957 in the lower left corner of that flyer.  Might that be July of 1957 when it was printed? 

What do you think?  It appears to have been printed using a mimeograph stencil.  Remember them?

No doubt the prices are Dealer or perhaps Distributor prices.  It would be interesting to find out more.

Was Northfield still in business in 1957?  I don't recall.......

KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Dave Taylor on July 27, 2013 at 11:11

 

Well I did some checking and found that Northfield was long gone before 1957.  So much for that theory!  In any case that is an interesting old flyer and it would be fun to find out more about it.

Permalink Reply by Ron Cooper on July 27, 2013 at 14:43

Dave, after doing some poking around in one of my books, I discovered this morsel: Northfield Knife Co. "UN-X-LD" run by Clark Brothers 1919 to 1929 in Northfield, CT.

This confirmed my suspicions that those were turn of the Century prices. And, I'm not talking about THIS Century. Obviously! 

Those old Northfields are rated as a very High Value collectibles! Don't ya wish you had a grandfather who owned a Hardware Store and stashed a few boxes of those stag handled Whittlers away in a safe and willed them all to you? I know I do!

Check it out. That bottom knife #117 which I'm sure was a typo -- I believe it should have read, "Caribou?" Stag ONLY! $10 for a dozen with 3 blades! It looks just like a Case Seahorse. Unbelievable!

Of course, I forget that the price of a Model T had dropped to $260 in the 1920's due to the efficiency of the production line. I also forget that I paid $75 for my first car in 1961. I was 15 and bought the car, a used '49 Chevy, with money I earned from my Paper Route. Heck! You can't even filled your gas tank up nowadays for 75 bucks. At least not in California! 

This is why I love this hobby. It unlocks so many doors of my consciousness. While I'm researching one thing I discover or consider ten more! lol

KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Dave Taylor on July 27, 2013 at 15:25

Ron, you are so right.  That beautiful Wharncliffe Whittler on the bottom of the page is outstanding!  Those prices just have to be from the very early 20th Century, as is the flyer.  I have the 1903 and 1907 Schatt & Morgan catalog reprints from David Clark that I enjoy and prices shown are similar. 

Once again our lives seem to parallel in bygone days.  My first car was a 1947 Chevy Club Coupe and I remember my grandmother buying my first tank of gas for me.  There was a "gas war" going on in our little town and gas was 18 cents a gallon that day.  And you're right again.....I can't fill the tank on my Dodge Ram for $75 today on the best day in town!

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Ron Cooper on July 27, 2013 at 16:19

Dave, I remember those "Gas Wars" well. Rival gas stations competing to see who could sell their gas the cheapest. Boy, that worm sure has turned. Now they compete to see who can charge the most for the least. No more full service. No more free air, even! And remember how there used to be a gas station on every corner? Now those gas stations have all been replaced with drug stores.

Oh, well! I guess Bob Dylan was right when he sang, "...the times they are a changin'."

Just think, though. You n' me, we were lucky enough to have seen America's finest hour. We were there, way back when! I hope she (America) shines again. But right now, from my perspective, it's looking doubtful?

*Oh, snap! I'd better get back to knives! lol Yep! I'll take 2 dozen of them 3 bladed Wharnies and toss in a couple dozen of them Gunstocks, while yer at it! I WISH!!! 

In MemoriamPermalink Reply by Robert Burris on July 27, 2013 at 18:28

Oh, Snap! Back to the real world. Sooner or later, things will get better. Bad thing, knife prices will go up....lol

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on July 27, 2013 at 19:41

ROFL, this discussion is awesome!  Those books were a fund raiser for the Museum and they went well!  They are the Counterfeit recognition books.  

Another wonderful day and so many fantastic knives to see.  I put a good number of pics up but have VERY many more to share.  Ms. Riley Daniels (and her Grandpa Joe) found herself a knife today and it was a treat to watch a young 7 year old (almost 8)  check the backsprings and the snap before buying one 

as we were closing up for the day Pat Vroman, Ken Mundhenk, and Roger Cunningham had a chance to talk for a moment.

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