I’ve had a small bunch of knives that I’ve been hanging on to for most of my life and I decided to get them out, clean them up, dig up whatever info on them I could find and give them to my oldest son……so he can throw them in a drawer and forget about them. 
But I had some fun doing this and thought the history was interesting.
First up my trusty old Buck Model 110 folding lock blade knife. Introduced in 1964, it is considered to be the most popular knife of all time, selling over 15 million of them. This was my every day carry knife when I was young and working construction. Bought in 1974, I was hard on this knife and it has the scars to prove it, the sheath has…ummm…patina, but it is still in pretty good condition.
Next up is Schrade Uncle Henry locking blade with rosewood handles. From 1983, it was a gift and I never used it. It was made in the USA. In 2004, Schrade sold the company. You can still buy a Schrade Uncle Henry knife, but these days it’s made in China.
These two knives were given to me by my grandfather when I was a young boy in the early 60’s. They were inexpensive at the time , the kind of pocket knives you would find in a glass case in an old hardware store. And since my grandfather was a farmer in a small town in Missouri, I’m sure that’s exactly where he bought them.
Surprisingly there are several knife forums and knife collectors are interested in these old knives, even though they aren’t worth a whole lot. The large one is made by Sabre, an old Ohio company, the knife was made in Japan, it was an early model of a long running design called a Barlow ( that’s a style that is sold across other brands of knives ) it has sawed bone handles. It’s still sharp but has had some corrosion.
The smaller knife is from the Imperial Schrade knife co. A model called the Peanut. I wore that knife out carrying it in my pocket , clear up through high school, back in a time when most boys carried a pocket knife and wouldn’t get kicked out of school and had the police called on them, just for carrying one.
So anybody else got any good old knives thrown in a tool box or night stand drawer?
I’d be interested in seeing them!
But I had some fun doing this and thought the history was interesting.First up my trusty old Buck Model 110 folding lock blade knife. Introduced in 1964, it is considered to be the most popular knife of all time, selling over 15 million of them. This was my every day carry knife when I was young and working construction. Bought in 1974, I was hard on this knife and it has the scars to prove it, the sheath has…ummm…patina, but it is still in pretty good condition.
Next up is Schrade Uncle Henry locking blade with rosewood handles. From 1983, it was a gift and I never used it. It was made in the USA. In 2004, Schrade sold the company. You can still buy a Schrade Uncle Henry knife, but these days it’s made in China.
These two knives were given to me by my grandfather when I was a young boy in the early 60’s. They were inexpensive at the time , the kind of pocket knives you would find in a glass case in an old hardware store. And since my grandfather was a farmer in a small town in Missouri, I’m sure that’s exactly where he bought them.
Surprisingly there are several knife forums and knife collectors are interested in these old knives, even though they aren’t worth a whole lot. The large one is made by Sabre, an old Ohio company, the knife was made in Japan, it was an early model of a long running design called a Barlow ( that’s a style that is sold across other brands of knives ) it has sawed bone handles. It’s still sharp but has had some corrosion.
The smaller knife is from the Imperial Schrade knife co. A model called the Peanut. I wore that knife out carrying it in my pocket , clear up through high school, back in a time when most boys carried a pocket knife and wouldn’t get kicked out of school and had the police called on them, just for carrying one.
So anybody else got any good old knives thrown in a tool box or night stand drawer?
I’d be interested in seeing them!
I love the Italian and the French ones. 
