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What's your oldest blade?
Mine has to be this German bayonet that my grandfather, 2LT Roscoe Strewart, brought back from Germany in 1919. This appears to be what is called an 1898/05 "Butcher Blade" and this version dates to no earlier than 1915. It is tough to make out, but I think the marking on the spine may have a "15" inside it. No matter what, it is highly likely that this blade is 100+ years old.
Please post pictures of your old blades and provide some background.
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1. The Enfield bayonet for my Lanchester Mk.1*. The blade is marked "Wilkinson" and 1907. I don't know if that is the model or year it was made. (No photo)
2. My grandfather's Case pocket knife. I think he got it in the 1920s or 30s. (No photo) I remember sitting on his lap when I was maybe 3 years old. and he peeled an apple and gave me slices to eat. That pocket knife is worth more than gold to me.
3. My WW2 Randall #1 made in Springfield. Massachusetts.
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Small Shrade lock back pocket knife I gave my father for Christmas 50 years ago. He is long gone but I keep that old knife around because it was one of his favorites and he carried it a lot. I remember sharpenin
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That would be an NSKK dagger brought back from World War 2. Probably late 30s or early 40s . Next would be a Puma Skinner bought back in 1968. Is in very good shape cause it never got used. Will post pics when I figure it out or my son gets home next week.
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Probably my Grandpa’s Camillius Stockknife.
The main blade is pretty worn down.
The Sheepfoot also shows wear.
The penblade is blackened.
He chewed the solid cake tobacco and cut it with the small blade.
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The oldest blade I ever had was a French bayonet that dated to 1874, if I recall correctly. An honest contractor turned it up on my property with his (tractor) blade and gave it to me. I researched it and found that it was not rare, and not worth much. I found several others for sale around town. Lost it when somebody broke into some shop space I was renting in a warehouse.
Next oldest is probably the Loewen Hippekniep (sodbuster) I bought in Amsterdam in 1970. That is the one I have had the longest, anyway. It is the wood-handled one in the photo.
There are others that may be older, I don’t know their provenance. One could be the small Marbles hunter I bought from a buddy who was keeping it in a tool bucket as a beater/utility knife. Another could be the Jagdnicker Conchita found at a garage sale, a very typical stag-handled German hunting/utility knife. On the whole, nothing extraordinary.
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I don't know the exact age of this knife because I'm not the original owner, but I'm guessing it was made in the 1950's.
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I'd say you have the rest of us beat by quite a stretch, so far. But if you're making a claim like that, we need lots of good pictures.
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Not quite sure of the age of this one - one reference says "18th century." Any experts on antique folding knives out there?
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This thread is making me "knife hungry" No kid had a bigger collection than me when I was a kid but those are long gone including a P.I.C. bone handle knife made in Germany. Just started a new collection with some "quality" for a change. Heard Benchmade is great but of course not inexpensive.
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My grandfather passed away about two weeks after I turned three, in 1959. He was a machinist and shop superintendent for a couple of Houston's larger tool making companies. His well worn pen knife is the one I selected when my Dad was giving his dad's knives to my generation.
It dates to the 1950s at least, probably to the late 1940s. The only markings I can make out read "Stain". His initials were also marked on the handle.
I am attaching a photo of the man. I also posted it in the old picture thread.
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My oldest
4 blades that are older than I am (73).
*Two pattern '88 british Queen Victoria era. one a Sanderson 11-
95 the other an enfield 3-91.
*One Wolstenhom farriers knive i think was home made and
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[QUOTE=jag312;140080127]1. The Enfield bayonet for my Lanchester Mk.1*. The blade is marked "Wilkinson" and 1907. I don't know if that is the model or year it was made. (No photo)
If the blade is about 16" long 1907 is the model but may also be the year it was made. The longer blade was to give the troops more reach because of the shorter length of the smle from the older enfield rifles.
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A 1963 6" wood handled Dexter Russel filet knife. Still the sharpest & most used in the kitchen. I seriously doubt many would sell a 5-6 y/o kid a knife anywhere like this today. The metal has shrunk from sharpening.
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I have some kitchen knives that came down in the family.
May have been used in a bakery my mom's family owned till the 1940s.
Or could be older. Carbon steel, worn wooden handles, and
stained blades. Still easy to sharpen and cut well.
Oldest other knives may be an Opinel my father in law had. Or a
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1. The Enfield bayonet for my Lanchester Mk.1*. The blade is marked "Wilkinson" and 1907. I don't know if that is the model or year it was made. (No photo)
If the blade is about 16" long 1907 is the model but may also be the year it was made. The longer blade was to give the troops more reach because of the shorter length of the smle from the older enfield rifles.
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From the hilt to the tip is 17 inches. The sharpened part of the blade is 16 inches.
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1860 U.S. Navy cutlass from the civil war.
The other one is a 1850 Navy officers dress sword from 1918 WW I.
https://s33.postimg.cc/utmbtofdr/swords_006.jpg
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My Dad's belt knife he carried in the South Pacific/Philippines in WWII..... a custom/one off;Bowie blade, bone handled knife he got before deploying with the Coast Guard in 1943
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These are beaters but the two on the bottom I believe are 1890 vintage, the one with the chip out of the scale is a Remington.
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may be a trade knife
the butt has 1829 scratched in it and WH
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Very nice and thanks to all who posted so far. Find older knives very interesting. Bet more from way back used carbon steel. These days more types of stainless with added alloys than one can shake a stick at. One feature I like these days is the lock-up feature of the blade. Can recall those blades closing on fingers back when I was a kid.
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I have my grandfather's pocket knife he got just before heading off to France for WWI and driving an ambulance.
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Sharkbait, my father had a bayonet that looked like that except that it had a sawtooth spine. Perhaps my younger brother has it now. My dad kept it in one of the barns and the blade was quite rusted. Wooden handle, from my memory, looked exactiy like yours, and the blade profile, in my memory, was the same.
I rember reading somewhere, lerhaps in a novel, that in WWI, guys with sawtooth blades would file off the saw teeth so as not to be caught by the enemy with such an evil blade. I have no idea if that is true or not.
My oldest blade is either a Japanese short sword that dates to the 1860s, or an ivory handled, silver sheathed dagger of indeterminate age I bought in Bangkok 30 some years ago.
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Sharkbait, my father had a bayonet that looked like that except that it had a sawtooth spine. Perhaps my younger brother has it now. My dad kept it in one of the barns and the blade was quite rusted. Wooden handle, from my memory, looked exactiy like yours, and the blade profile, in my memory, was the same.
I rember reading somewhere, lerhaps in a novel, that in WWI, guys with sawtooth blades would file off the saw teeth so as not to be caught by the enemy with such an evil blade. I have no idea if that is true or not.
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There was an earlier version of this design that had a sawtooth back. British soldiers would kill any German they caught with one, so it was ordered that the teeth be removed. I found pictures of the variants online.
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I've had this old Solingen blade so long I cannot even remember when or
where I got it. I don't remember what the original grip looked like either.
The grip was broken so I replaced it. Made the grip out of a pick handle.
My Dad said "it ain't much for looks, but it's Hell for strong." He's been
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Somewhere in my treasures, I have a knife and a straight razor that belonged to my paternal grandfather, who died in 1959. The knife was not a high quality item, but it was good enough to cut the end of a cigar.
I have a large Case Stockman that was given to me by a constable. I was grumping about loosing my knife over a cup of coffee with the constable. He went to his car and retrieved the knife. He said that he had removed the knife from a prisoner some twenty years prior. The prisoner had jumped bail leaving his few personal items. He supposed the guy was never coming back. This was in 1962. Constable thought the knife was likely pre WWII. I'm not a collector, so I really don't know. Anyway it is a great knife. The spay blade us getting a little thin, but it is still serviceable.
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I've had this old Solingen blade so long I cannot even remember when or
where I got it. I don't remember what the original grip looked like either.
The grip was broken so I replaced it. Made the grip out of a pick handle.
My Dad said "it ain't much for looks, but it's Hell for strong." He's been
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Good looking knife. The blade looks like it could have been a bayonet at some point.
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WWll from my Dad. Nothing comes to mind earlier than that - except one of my Grandfather's Razor's.
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Most of these are over 100 years old:
The Japanese Officer's Shin Gunto is the youngest and was made in 1943. The oldest is the Swiss Cavalry Saber Model of 1867 which is 2nd from left hand side
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now you bring out the big ones
one of my sons, don't know much about it. was told 1300/1400?
but its big, just short of 6 feet.
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An Anton Wingen knife in the traditional Bavarian form. Puma made/makes an almost identical one. Stag scales.
Blade is marked Henley & Co., Germany. Probably the importer. Has Wingen's logo of Othello's head.
My father got it for me when I was about nine. My first hunting knife.
The belt loop was flimsy and came loose long ago.
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Wow! If that thing is the real deal you should have it evaluated and appraised. It looks like the sword from the movie Highlander.
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I think I've got everyone here beat as far as oldest. I have a Clovis blade which I found eroding from a creek bank in Kentucky. It is around 13,000 to 13,500 years old.
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06-29-2018, 07:57 PM
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My “oldest” bayonet
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06-30-2018, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Shark Bait
There was an earlier version of this design that had a sawtooth back. British soldiers would kill any German they caught with one, so it was ordered that the teeth be removed. I found pictures of the variants online.
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The sawteeth were for cutting wood. If they were to be used against other soldiers the points would face the other direction. They were usually issued to nco and engineers. The brits conveinently forgot they used them also before WW1 as it made good propaganda against the germans. Prior to ww1 fence posts were wooden not metal so it was easier to cut down barbwire defences. Some times you will find them with the teeth cut off just for that reason.
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07-03-2018, 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 500SNW
I think I've got everyone here beat as far as oldest. I have a Clovis blade which I found eroding from a creek bank in Kentucky. It is around 13,000 to 13,500 years old.
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There's a flint scraper from the Wind River country somewhere in my medicine bag that I'm sure pre-dates Columbus, but I couldn't put a date on it for certain.
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