Lot 1451:
Assorted Vintage Pocket Knives Including Sharp 900 Folding Hunter
Description
This lot consists of 7 assorted folding pocket knives featuring a variety of patterns and handle materials. The group includes a Sharp 900 large single-blade lockback folding hunter. The hunter knife features a stainless steel clip point blade with a long nail nick, brass liners, and two-tone handle scales consisting of dark pakkawood bolsters and a jigged off-white synthetic center. The tang is stamped SHARP over 900, with a circular eagle device appearing on the front bolster.
The collection also includes four slim folding knives intended for florist or utility use, featuring cream-colored synthetic celluloid scales and carbon steel blades in sheepsfoot and hawkbill profiles. One of these utility knives bears a tang stamp reading STAINLESS over IMPORTED. Three of these folders are equipped with metal bails at the butt end. Completing the lot are two smaller folders: a single-blade pen knife with cream-colored scales and a decorative red spherical finial, stamped IMPORTED on the tang, and a small all-metal two-blade utility knife.
Condition report:
The Sharp 900 hunter shows light surface scratching and sharpening wear to the blade, with significant oxidation and darkening to the pakkawood bolsters (photo 4 and 5). The four cream-handled utility knives exhibit heavy rust, pitting, and darkening across all blades (photo 1 and 3). Two of these knives show visible structural cracks in the synthetic handle scales (photo 2 and 3), and green verdigris oxidation is present on the brass liners. The red-finial pen knife shows surface oxidation and pitting on the blade (photo 2). The all-metal utility knife is heavily rusted and pitted across all surfaces (photo 3).
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