Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Vintage Scandinavian Knife

A buddy of mine gave me this knife that he found years ago at a garage sale or something like that. He wanted to know about it. I told him about the style, the steel, etc and then, to my surprise, he gave it to me!

Some details: As far as I can tell, it is from Orr & Lockett Hardware company in Chicago. It seems that they released mail order catalogs around the 1890's to 1910. This knife is from Sweden but distributed by them. You can see that it is very worn and has seen a lot of use. I don't know what the original grind was, but it is now naturally convexed.

It is awesome.