Inspirational garage sale find trade knife etc

[ddoyle]

Rooting thru a box of old files and this popped up.  wostenholm & son, ixl trade knife ? I think. 4 rivets two at top and then two in center of handle. Other finds pictured one of 4 tins of primers by kynoch for Paper or "perfect" cartridges.  Primers in perfect condition. Maybe I need a pinfire!  and a pouch that I could not leave behind. Total outlay was .75 cents. Told the sellers what I thought they all were and they were happy to have them go to a good home. The knife was in that garage on the window sill since 1950.

Thinking the knife will go in a display with a GR naval button (George Regis) that I found a mile away when I bent down to pick up my anchor on the shore. Mouth of Fraser River area.

Any thoughts?

FYI I had been kicking myself for the past two years for leaving a mint HBC pot and knife at a thrift store, so it is kind of a redemption find.



 

[Shreckmeister]

Good find. 

[Wayne Holcombe]

I think the leather pouch was for cigarette pack back in the last century.

[heinz]

IXL made that pattern from the 19th century well into the 1950's. I have one just like it. The IXL s in all their various models are usually very good knives. Their straight razors are excellent. I have over a dozen of the razors
Enjoy your find. It was good deal

[WadePatton]

IXL made that pattern from the 19th century well into the 1950's. I have one just like it. The IXL s in all their various models are usually very good knives. Their straight razors are excellent. I have over a dozen of the razors
Enjoy your find. It was good deal

Hope you're shaving with those.  I've honed out a few, but my favorite blade right now is a "NON IXL" by Joseph Allen & Sons, Sheffield (15/16 Barber's Rattler in original horn scales complete with beatle bites).

Oh i was wrong.  This is "NON XLL"  Hard to read the "XLL" from pivot wear, but the collective fixed me.

Anyway, i'm so happy i learned to shave properly, i have to share.  I like restoring blades to their proper, useful levels of sharpness. 

Great on the find, so much treasure in the old junk.  My fantasy find (besides a bp original gun) is an Escher razor hone.

[heinz]

Wade,  I have four I shave with,two of these I use regularly. They have an edge that will actually split a hair, or at least peel a shaving off of it. I do that little trick under a magnifier.

[Dphariss]

Russell made "stickers" just like this for years and years and years. The iron rivets were eventually replaced with 3 brass cutlery rivets probably in the 1960s?  Great find. Many of these got ruined when people started using dishwashers. Very hard on the handles.


Dan