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Fancy Handles & Bolsters oh my!
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Fancy Handles & Bolsters oh my!
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March 14, 2019, 12:56:26 AM
Haven't posted much in recent weeks due to some health issues so now that I am once again,"vertical and taking nourishment" I thought I would post up some pictures of knives with fancy handles and/or bolsters. Some are handled in sterling silver and some in carved aluminum or mother of pearl.The aluminum handled ones were made at a time(circa 1900)when that metal was almost as valuable as gold due to the difficulty in mining it.Once a practical method of extracting it from the ground was discovered the price dropped accordingly.
Most fancy handled knives are what we would normally consider,"Sunday" knives;to be worn to church or some other event usually on the end of a gold chain attached to a pocket watch.These went out of fashion when wrissmurfches became popular to wear.Then they were relegated to a small leather purse to be carried in the pocket.
I am only including a couple of so-called,"ladies' fruit knives" because I think they are a step up from the usual silver handled ones although I may make a separate post for those. Anyway here they are.
#1 A Press Button Knife Co. one armed man's knife with cast aluminum handles and advertising a company that made prosthetic devices. Supposedly this company gave these knives to veterans of the Spanish American war who had lost an arm or hand.
#2 A so-called,"penny knife";so named because most of them were very inexpensive costing only a penny or two.This one has a fancy carved wood handle.
#3 A Bingham Hardware knife sporting pearl handles;fancy cast bolsters;and a button hook and manicure blade.
#4 A Bonsa bartender's knife with a cap lifter incorporated into the master blade and a folding beverage can opener on the other side.
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March 14, 2019, 02:12:18 AM
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#1 Capital Cutlery Co. Germany whittler with fancy sterling silver handle(the other side is missing).
#2 Three Chinese(or maybe Japanese)souvenir knives with sheaths and handles made of carved bone segments from the 1960's.
#3 A small figural knife from France with horn handles pressed into the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
#4 E.Bonsmann Germany lobster ad knife for Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Spanish.
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March 14, 2019, 02:16:48 AM
Page Three
#1 & 2 EKA Eskilstuna lobster knife with handles of gold(plate)and enamelling.
#3 & 4 EKA Eskilstuna lobster ad knife for Ohio Rubber.
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March 14, 2019, 02:21:15 AM
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#1 Empire Knife Co. Winsted CT 2 blade pen with pearl handles and sterling silver beaded bolsters in original purse.
#2 Five knives from England & Germany with fluted handles and bolsters.
#3 Germania Cutlery Co. with stamped fancy one piece bolsters/handles.
#4 Hudson cutlery Co. Germany whittler with sterling silver handles.
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March 14, 2019, 02:26:30 AM
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#1 Humason & Beckley whittler with fancy sterling silver handles.
#2 2 blade marked Inoxiable(French maybe)with celluloid handles and different colored bolsters sawtooth fitted together.
#3 A bird handled knife from either Iraq or Lebanon.I have a fixed blade with the same handle and have seen entire tableware sets with the same type of handle.
#4 An I*XL gent's knife with sterling silver handles.
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March 14, 2019, 02:31:28 AM
Last one for now:
#1 A miniature Japanese multi-blade folder with engraved sterling silver handles.
#2 Knifblogat Eskilstuna 7 blade knife with gold washed etched handles.
#3 A multiblade knife with machine engraved handles and markings that look like possibly Indian cyphers and broad arrow mark.
#4 National Cutlery Works Germany with carved aluminum handles.
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March 14, 2019, 03:23:00 AM
Ray your collection never ceases to amaze!
What? Enablers! Are you serrrrious? Where? I dont see any.
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March 14, 2019, 03:26:57 AM
Quote from: David on March 14, 2019, 03:23:00 AM
Ray your collection never ceases to amaze!
and David, you took the words right out of my mouth
it is exactly what I was thinking I was going to post as I was scrolling down
Some very nice blades, Ray
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March 14, 2019, 03:38:51 AM
*What David and Poncho said!
Pontificating particularly pious positions pertaining to polymorphic paraphernalia. G-Man.
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March 14, 2019, 03:49:03 AM
+2
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March 14, 2019, 05:08:51 AM
+3 Thanks for posting Ray and glad you are feeling better !
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March 14, 2019, 06:32:26 AM
Thanks for the kind words fellas. I'm still having some health issues but nothing I can't handle(I hope). In the meanwhile I guess I'll lay a few more on you.
#1 A Phillippine golang with the handle carved in the shape of a dog's head.
#2 A Precise lock back with etching all over and scrimshaw on the handles.
#3 A 4 blade gent's knife marked only with a Text S inside a shield.
#4 Not a knife but a pair of scissors and button hook inside a sterling silver knife handle.
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March 14, 2019, 06:37:23 AM
A few more:
#1A pair of Schrade model 215 Barlows with fancy bolsters.
#2 Thomson Cutlery Co.2 blade with carved aluminum handles.
#3 & 4 An unmarked whittler with carved steel handles engraved with different designs on either side with a gold wash.
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March 14, 2019, 02:44:32 PM
Oh My is exactly what I was thinking when scrolling through the pictures. Such fancy knives with some neat features. I really like the sterling silver ones.
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March 16, 2019, 06:44:33 PM
They're beautiful Ray, and glad you are feeling better!
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