If you could travel back in time.....

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Permalink Reply by David L. Anthony on May 1, 2009 at 6:50

I think you have physic powers. I just submitted an article to Knife World on the Tariff hearings and all the major players. I found it to be extremely interesting. If you like I can send you the full version as Mark Z felt it a bit long for the publication. Neat stuff too. You need to quit reading my mind. It is getting a little weird LOL!!!!!!!!

I could do three more stories on this, but Mark said one was more than enough. Just not enough of us knife history nuts out there I guess.

David L. Anthony

Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 1, 2009 at 6:51

Mike- That's very good. Exactly what I was hoping. Appreciate it.
I'm still thinking about mine which is why I haven't posted yet, but I will.
Yeah, your right- pick up a couple hundred dozen 6250 toenails and then time travel back....I like that thought. You know, I'd probably keep everyone though. I've bought to sale before and it just doesn't work. I end up keeping them.
Good story- Thanks

Mike Bryant said:

Back in time?? The First Place I would Stop, would be at the W.R. CASE & SONS CUTLERY COMPANY, BRADFORD PENNSYLVANIA. Year would be, oh lets say 1935.

Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 1, 2009 at 6:59

Fantastic!! Like in the old days, when a preacher finds content to use- he'd say, "Now that will preach."
David, that's going to be good stuff- Good meat there. That is why I started researching it. It has all the elements to me- the major firm's founders- a coalition of knife companies, Senate Hearings, some inside connections (was it Tom Bradley??), conflict, bad guys (European and German firms)....yeah some real meet there. Can't wait to read it.

David L. Anthony said:

I think you have physic powers. I just submitted an article to Knife World on the Tariff hearings and all the major players.

David L. Anthony

Permalink Reply by Roger Cunningham on May 1, 2009 at 9:21

I think I`d use my trip on the time machine to go back to 1900 and hang around the Little Valley,NY area.I`d wear a coat with large pockets, they would be full for the trip back.

Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 1, 2009 at 9:29

Yeah, really. How about pocket fulls of CB 8250, 7250...well heck for that matter, 5250s, 2250s. Might as well get 2251's and any others they had...then run over to Platts for some MINT Jumbos before the gateway closes out on me. I like thinking about it. It would be too cool!!

Roger Cunningham said:

I think I`d use my trip on the time machine to go back to 1900 and hang around the Little Valley,NY area.I`d wear a coat with large pockets, they would be full for the trip back.

Permalink Reply by Wayne Koons on May 4, 2009 at 17:41

Mike - Great thoughts! My Case Brothers 1904 catalog has the 8250's at 72.00. The highest of any knife, with 8 different handle materials available. Last year I seen a 8250 change hands at $5500.00

Permalink Reply by Roger Cunningham on May 5, 2009 at 7:35

What would a mint 8250 be worth if a dozen of them showed up on the market?

Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on May 5, 2009 at 17:54

I'd like to play a game of billiards and have a shot of whiskey after work with these guys......

Permalink Reply by William Scott Stringham on May 5, 2009 at 20:18

Don't know if the story about Obadiah Barlow coming to America on the Mayflower is apocryphal or not. But if it's true, I'd like to have witnessed how well he put his talents to use once he settled and went to work American soil. Also curious whether he made larger pieces before he left England and if some of them were then used in that country's Puritan Revolution. Another early American knifemaker that I'd love to see the actual knives of (including the first Arkansas Toothpick) would be Jim Bowie. Proof of the original design of his famous Bowie knife would probably be worth something too (LOL).

Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 6, 2009 at 9:20

Now that is so cool, Trent.

Permalink Reply by C. David Pierce CRL on May 6, 2009 at 19:04

I've mused on this many a time and know that it would definitely have to be Andover, New York in the spring of 1907. There I would become aquainted with Charlie, Joe and Frank Platts and share first hand the birth pangs of their new enterprise, when hope and enthusiasm ran high. I'd bombard them with questions about quality standards and be at the factory to hold in my hand the first pocket knife finished by the assembly gang. Then I'd walk through the various departments to my hearts content watching exactly how the employees performed each operation and perhaps try my hand at it. Being able to observe the personal supervision of the Platts brothers at the cutlery would be the piece de resistance.