Selma North Carolina Patch Knives

[Shreckmeister]

I came across these patch knives in an antique shop in Selma. 7 1'2 inches
and 6".  The smaller has poured pewter I believe........UPDATE, my trusted advisor
tells me they are likely reshaped 19th century tableware.  Chalk up another one to
inexperience.  There seem to be an aweful lot of things left to learn here.

[LRB]

  I would agree with your adviser, but nice knives none the less.

[T*O*F]

Question......are you concentrating on 18th century stuff for your museum or do you have 19th century stuff too?

[Shreckmeister]

Question......are you concentrating on 18th century stuff for your museum or do you have 19th century stuff too?

I would like it to represent the 1840 to 1880 period when Shreckengoat was active.

[heelerau]

Scary goat?? I have a hand made patch knife that looks not unlike those knives in the photo. Even if it is only modified kitchenware, they would still work fine. I have done the same on one of my bags, an bone handled sheffield knife.

Cheers

[T*O*F]

Rob,
You got a PM.

[T.C.Albert]

The steel in those table knives is pretty good, and will take a razor sharp edge...as an avid collector of antique leather tools, I have found them similarly reshaped and/or worn down to a nub being used by cobblers in their kits as sole knives etc ...I don't think you should preclude their use as a late era patch knife out of hand...just my two cents worth.
tca

[Shreckmeister]

They are in fact very sharp

[Jerry V Lape]

I have a similar antique table knife as a patch knife.  It can be sharpened to razor edge but I find it isn't tempered right and dulls rather quickly cutting patching material.  Like the construction and white bone handle though.