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Our international membership is happily involved with “Anything that goes ‘cut’!” September 2020 Dawg Gone ibdennis I enjoy looking at that have a scene depicted on them. I mean is small that could commemorate an event (like the World’s Fair) or which tell a story visually. Visual stories would be hero knives or, as in this case, a moral to a story. Advertising on a pen knife is a constant reminder in a pocket about products and companies. When I first saw this little , the story was obvious. A boy poking a stick at a sleeping dog who was a safe distance away; but only to discover on the other side of the knife handle, it was a wiener dog that was long and tall enough to bite him in the britches. To me the message was, “Let sleeping dogs lie.” These knives are rarely offered, so whenever I find one I purchase it and add it to a collection. One known fact is these were all made in Germany. Everything else is speculation or conjecture so best guess takes the primary seat here. It appears that the time line is the 1910s and 1920s. The handles have images portrayed in high relief and appear to be aluminum, nickel silver, copper or copper plate. The cutlery marks are Christians Solingen, Marshall Field & Co. Germany, United Cutlery Co., and one with no mark. All the knives are the same physical size with slight variations in the images. One of the knives has a German inscription on the handles. On the side with the boy with the stick it reads “Wie Du Mir,” and on the side with the dog biting was “So Ich Dir. A mean “What goes around, comes around” or “As you treat me, google translation provided me with numerous thoughts on the so will I treat you” or “Just kidding you back” or “An eye for meaning of this phrase. an eye” or “Do unto others” or “What you deliver to me, I give Had I been a salesman in the 1920s, a small pocketknife would back to you.” be a handy carry; and the inspirational message would be a All these meanings and interpretations could send constant constant reminder of business ethics. “Let sleeping dogs lie” message reminders to someone having interactions with suggests that a dog is unpredictable by nature when aroused their fellow man, and that reminder is coupled with a from a nap. From the German viewpoint, the expression could handy little pocketknife. OKCA Free Classified AdsLane Events Center has extended The Seek-Re-Tary the time to reserve the facility. Report Free classified ads will run up to three issues and then be dropped. Available onlyIt tois paid very members. much Write ayour necessity ad on anything you have handy (except bamboo leaves) and email or snail mail to the OKCA, PO Boxduring 2091, Eugenethese ORuncertain 97402. The times. number and size of elayne ads submitted by a single member will be accepted, or excepted, dependent on available space and the mood of the editors. Be sure to checkout our Thank you to all who have been Facebook page. It has the understanding of the inconvenience and latest from our members. Lisa disruption of our 2020 Show plans. We Wages has been monitoring our are coping, the OKCA is strong; but Facebook page for these many we need the continued support of our We had hoped to have a no-host dinner longs. Thank you Lisa, from the membership to endure. Be there for us. at the Sizzler Restaurant in June, July officers and hopefully the members will You are needed. and August. We did have a dinner in also add their thanks for your work. It is time to start the hype for the June. It was a fun happening. Social Thank you to the individuals who have Holiday Show (was called the distancing and face masks when not contributed articles to this Knewslettter. December Winter/Mini Show for many eating or drinking, but the main joy was If you have an years) and for the 2021 April Show. We the fellowship and sharing of treasures article for us, have been receiving a few renewals acquired since March. We were unable to but do not type, of memberships and table rollovers. have a dinner in July or August because write it out and We had requested that the 2020 table- the Sizzler was closed. It was one of the mail it to us; I holders forward a 2021 application very few places available for a no-fee will type it for with the words “rollover” on the table reservation and meeting room. We are publication. At payment info line. This would insure hopeful that it will reopen shortly. As of this time we your tables for the 2021 Show until this date no September meeting can be do not have the December 15, 2020 deadline. You scheduled. We are hopeful that October a backlog of would need to renew your membership will be a return to our regular schedule. articles for for 2021 by the December 15, 2020 We have our fingers crossed. publication. Your deadline also. Thank you to all who The 2020 OKCA Club knives have input is necessary or the Knewslettter have already forwarded their payments been mailed and good things have been will not be able to continue. The article for membership and table rollovers. written by the new owners. Thank you for does not need to be long. A sharing of Do not forget to forward your completed your support of our fund-raising event. your interests will encourage others 2021 table application by the December This fund-raising funds our Show and to share also. We are all experts in our 15, 2020 deadline for the rollover Knewslettter costs and helps to maintain interests. of tables and also renewal of your our low price for tables and membership. Stay safe and keep a distance from membership for 2021. Your support will Thank you Roy Humenick. others (especially those we have be the deciding factor “Will there be a We have not been required to pay designated as partners). It reduces the Show?” “Will it be a success?” Only if our non-refundable deposit for the arguments and frustration. we have table-holders and visitors. December 12 Holiday Show yet. The

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(541)484-5564 (541)484-5564 permissionNo part of ofthis the Knewslettter OKCA. may be reproduced without ClubW ebemail page--- [email protected] http://www.oregonknifeclub.org/ Layoutpermission and printingof the OKCA. by instaprint Layout -and printing 1208by instaprint W. 6th - Eugene,- 1208 W. OR 6th 97402 - Eugene, - OR 97402 - Club email --- [email protected] PhonePhone (541)686-8591 (541)686-8591 March 2013 Page 7 in favor of submission of words from of gun shows OKCA Knews our members. The May issue had three also follows & Musings of my articles. That is embarrassing to this course of ibdennis me. It has been suggested to re-run old demise. This is articles, but the goal has always been not a statement This has been a hard summer. fresh articles. Maybe it is a sign that we today but don’t need to disband. be surprised The pandemic rolls on. No flea markets, Articles this month should it happen no gun shows, no knife shows and no soon. restaurants. Life as we have known it Thank you Martin Drivdahl for your is flip flopped. The future really looks words this month. Monthly Club meeting dim for the world of gathering We had one meeting in June at of groups that go cut. From my the Sizzler, but new rules and crystal ball I do not see relief guidelines suggest gatherings until a vaccine is produced and like our group will not be proven. Covid-19 has taken its allowed. We drove by the Sizzler toll. the other day, and it was closed. The March up roar of some For how long or why we do not people who wanted us to cancel know. However a recent sign the April Show pro-actively was said closed and that was just very trying on me. If the Show that. So no September meeting. were cancelled from within, it Great Eastern Club knives would have raised some serious We finally got the OKCA Club responsibility issues. We opted knives and all have been mailed. to let the state of Oregon make It is a beauty of a knife, and that decision for us. That in hind we thank all for your patience site was perfect for the good of in receiving this knife so late. the order. Thank you Roy Humenick for The future of the Oregon Knife your work on this project. Job Collectors is in the balance well done. right now. The Holiday Show No meeting for September is fast upon us, and to control the disease, stringent controls Cuz the Sizzler is closed for will be necessary, even out to one. Two is the directive of this date. This could translate limited group gathering by the to poor attendance both by Governor of Oregon. Three is table-holders and visitors. This just good preventative medicine. is without addressing the issue So the final tally is no meeting that every knife touched will at least for September. need a Clorox wipe down. We Remember need to consider whether to To take advantage of the hold this event, as we must pay The Organization table “rollover” for 2021, a for the hall in advance. 2021 application must be filled in and We cannot and will not make that I have been at this organization for signed and have a notation you would decision today but are advising all with almost 48 years of donated service. But like the rollover option. You can also these words there may be no show. basically the pay is lousy. I have tried to renew your 2020 membership to 2021 hand the reins over to others to keep the The Knewslettter at this time, or you can wait until organization afloat should I not be able December 15, 2020, the deadline for We have a fantastic Knewslettter which to continue. That is not going to happen. table reservations. As a member and has been supported by the membership. I Before you ask why, step up to the task. not a table-holder, you have a deadline like to see complete and full issues with I envision my role to be that of the knife of December 31, 2020 for renewal. But contributions from our members. We clubs in the South and California that remember, do not forget. You must be a have a few regulars who support us with have dwindled away, the Northwest paid 2021 member to attend the special words, but that supply is getting low. I Knife Club and the Randall Knife hours at the 2021 Show. enjoy writing but hold back my articles Society to name a few. My knowledge September 2020 Kinfolks Fixed Blade Hunting Knives Martin Drivdahl This article is written to focus only on the topic of non-military sheath knives manufactured by Kinfolks Cutlery. These were marketed as sportsman’s knives for hunters and fishermen. The contents of this report is based primarily on information obtained from the book Photo 2 Photo 5 Kinfolks Knives written and copyrighted Photo No. 5 are two Kinfolks knives as a No. MY 65 and has a yellow- 2010 by Dean Elliott Case. Dean Elliott with the “USA” stamping. The knife orange colored marblette handle and a is the grandson of Dean J. Case who, in on the left is clearly stamped as a No. 5” blade. Neither of these knives has a association with his cousins Russ Case 350 and is quite similar to Western’s model number stamped; but the model and Tint Champion, started Kinfolks model 39. It has a 5-1/4” saber ground, of the knife on the left was identified Incorporated at Little Valley, New skinning blade with a thumb rest. The from old catalog page recopies, while York, on November 04, 1926. At the knife on the right in Photo No 5 has no the knife on the right could be found on company’s founding, Dean J. Case was model number stamped, but it is shown any of the catalog pages reproduced in chosen to run the operations at the plant, on a 1939 catalog page reprint as a No. Dean Elliott’s book. This knife seems to and by the mid 1930s he had acquired 368. It is equipped with a heavy 5-1/2” be quite unique, with a cast aluminum sole ownership of the company. Upon the saber blade, leather handles with finger guard/bolster, a leather washer handle death of Dean J. Case on April 3, 1951, the grips and has the correct leather sheath. and a round cast aluminum butt. company passed on to his son, J. Elliott Case (father of Dean Elliott). Due to increased foreign knife competition and a slowing business, Kinfolks, Inc. closed its door on November 1957. Through the efforts of Emerson Case, Robeson Cutlery bought Kinfolks and liquidated its assets. Robeson, at its Perry, New York, location introduced a line of “New Era” Kinfolks brand hunting knives, including three with Emerson Case’s Photo 3 patented tungsten carbide coated blades. The next oldest Kinfolks stamping shortened “INCORPORATED” to INC.” placed under the tail of the “K” as is Photo 6 shown in Photo No. 3 on the bolster of The two knives shown in Photo No. 6 a knife of the same design to that seen are both “New Era” etch blade Kinfolks in Photo No. 2. This stamping was used models made by Robeson between 1958 from 1933 to 1939, at which time “INC.” and 1965. The knife on the left has a was replaced with “USA” under the tail stag handle and a 5-1/2” saber ground of the “K.” This stamp is shown on the blade that is etched “KINFOLKS Flame blade closeup on Photo No. 4 and was Super Hunter - 568TC.” The TC stands Photo 1 used from 1939 until 1951. Seen in for tungsten carbide. The knife on the right is a Black Bear Hunter with a Kinfolks started production of sheath 5” concave ground saber blade that knives in 1928, and the first stamping is etched “KINFOLKS-232 USA.” It used was “Kinfolks Incorporated” with has what is termed, on a 1958 catalog “INCORPORATED” placed under the page reprint, as a black and red Hi-Den long tail of the “K” as is shown in Photo handle. It has the correct black leather No. 1. This stamping was used from sheath as does the No. 568 TC in Photo 1928 to 1933, and Photo No. 2 shows No. 6. And there you have Kinfolks in two knives which both have this brand a nutshell. stamp. The knife on the left was identified Photo 4 P.O. BOX 2091 • EUGENE, OR 97402 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION AND SHOW TABLE CONTRACT *PLEASE RETURN THIS ENTIRE PAGE or a photocopy. DO NOT CUT IT UP!* email: [email protected]

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46TH ANNUAL OREGON KNIFE SHOW • APRIL 09-11, 2021 360 — 8'x30" TABLES Exhibit Hall, Lane Events Center and Fairgrounds, 796 West 13th Ave., Eugene, Oregon. For Information Contact Show Chairman: Dennis Ellingsen, (541) 484-5564

AUTOMATIC RESERVATIONS: If you had a table at the SHOW FACILITATORS will be provided by OKCA from 2020 Show, you have an automatic reservation for the 10AM Friday until 4 PM Sunday. However, exhibitors are same table in 2021, but THIS RESERVATION EXPIRES responsible for watching their own tables. Neither the OKCA SHOW DECEMBER 15, 2020. You may still apply for a table nor the Lane Events Center will be responsible for any loss, after this date, but we cannot guarantee a table after theft, damage, or injury of any kind. SCHEDULE Friday, April 09, 2021. December 15. NO RESERVATIONS HONORED OR AP- CITY AND COUNTY REGULATIONS require that there be: PLICATIONS ACCEPTED WITHOUT FULL PAYMENT! Note 10am - 7pm set-up; open ONLY to NEW exhibitors: your table(s) will be assigned after • No Smoking within the Exhibit Hall at any time; to table-holders and members of 12/15/2020. • No alcoholic beverages consumed within the OKCA. Exhibit Hall during the public hours of the Show; ALL TABLE-HOLDERS AND VISITORS agree to abide by Saturday, April 10, 2021. the OKCA Show rules and to hold the OKCA, its officers, • No loaded firearms worn or displayed at the Show; • No swords or knives brandished or displayed in a 7am-8am set-up. 8am-5pm open and the Lane Events Center harmless for any accident, loss, to public. damage, theft, or injury. provocative manner. Violators of these safety rules will be asked to leave. ANY QUESTION OR DISPUTE arising during the Show Sunday, April 11, 2021. shall be resolved by the Show Chairman, whose decision NOTE ON AND : In Oregon 8am-9am set-up. 9am-3pm open shall be final. it is legal to make, sell, buy, or own knives. to public. However, it is ILLEGAL to carry a switchblade knife, a gravity THIS IS A KNIFE SHOW. All tables must be 90% knives or knife, a , or a concealed on one's person, or for knife related items (e.g. swords, axes, edged tools, edged a convicted felon to possess a switchblade or . weapons, knife books, knifemaking supplies). If in doubt, Most other states have banned switchblade knives. Under Tables that are cancelled will revert check with the Show Chairman ahead of time. The OKCA federal law, it is ILLEGAL to mail, carry, or ship a switchblade back to the OKCA. reserves the right to bar any item from display or sale. No or gravity knife across state lines. Subcontracting tables is not firearms may be sold or shown at this Show. permitted. The Oregon Knife Collectors Association is not responsible ALL EXHIBITORS are required to keep their tables set up for force majeure. throughout the public hours of the Show: 8 AM Saturday to 3 PM Sunday. ANY EXHIBITOR WHO LEAVES OR COV- EXHIBITOR CONTRACT: PLEASE ENCLOSE FULL PAYMENT WITH THIS FORM. Full refund ERS THEIR TABLE BEFORE 3 PM SUNDAY FORFEITS granted if reservation canceled by February 15, 2021. DON'T GET LEFT OUT!!! FUTURE RESERVATIONS AND WILL BE DENIED TABLES MAIL THIS PAGE AND YOUR CHECK TODAY. A signature is required. AT FUTURE OREGON KNIFE SHOWS. DISPLAY TABLES will be around the perimeter of the room. Type of knives on your tables ______Displays are eligible for display awards, which are hand-made knives donated by members and supporters of OKCA. Dis- Name for second badge ______(two badges per table-holder) play judging will be by rules established by OKCA. Special category awards may also be offered. NOTHING MAY BE Qty ______Club Dues (Total from above) ...... $ ______SOLD FROM DISPLAY TABLES. Qty ______Sale/Trade table(s) @ $120 each (members only) ...... $ ______SALE/TRADE TABLES Sharing of tables will not be allowed. Exhibitors must comply with all applicable local, state, and Qty ______Collector Display table(s) free with sale table: ...... # ______federal laws. Oregon has NO SALES TAX. Qty ______Collector Display table(s) w/o trade table @ $100 each ...... $ ______BADGES: Each table-holder is entitled to one additional Show badge. NO EXCEPTIONS. TOTAL ENCLOSED (make check payable to O.K.C.A.) ...... $ ______KNIFEMAKERS who are present and are table-holders at this I have read and agree to abide by the OKCA Show rules as set forth in this contract, and to hold Show may enter knives in the knifemaking award competition. the OKCA, its officers, and the Lane Events Center harmless for any accident, damage, loss, FOR MORE INFORMATION on categories and judging theft, or injury. Signature and date required. criteria in the display and hand-made knife competitions, contact the Show Chairman. Signature ______Date ______

* PLEASE RETURN THIS ENTIRE PAGE or a photocopy. DO NOT CUT IT UP!* www.oregonknifeclub.org The Death of The We live in such a highly specialized Whatchacallit Knife world, and it Wayne Goddard would not be the knowledgeable There has been a lot of paper and ink used thing to do to use on the subject of what a is. a fish knife to skin I know what one is, it’s the kind of thing a deer. Or, heaven where I know one when I see it (at least, forbid, gut a fish what I believe a Bowie to be). I don’t get with a . it anyway; big knives that look like what or serious and often depends on the we call a Bowie knife had been made I’ve stood behind enough tables at knife mood I’m in. I’ll call it a , for hundreds of years before Jim Bowie shows to know that if I give a knife the letter opener, paring knife, , was born. Somehow they never caught wrong name I will probably miss the , shop knife, work knife or on quite like the Bowie did. Perhaps it sale. I called a knife a utility model once, whatchacallit knife. I probably shouldn’t had to do with the name. Consider for and the customer put it down like a hot have, but I always felt somewhat a minute where we would be if Jim potato. The fellow was in the market ignorant for not knowing what kind of Bowie’s last name had been Smith. “The for a hunting knife, and he didn’t want knife I was carrying. a knife by any other name. It could Smith Knife,” there is no magic there. I was talking about this dilemma with actually have been a magnum size bird The legend may have died out except for my friend, Jim Hayden, who is known knife, and I’ll just bet I could have made the name Bowie. (Well, that’s part of my as “The Book Peddler.” He suggested the sale if I had told him it was my #4 story; and I’m sticking to it.) the name “Dinky Little Knife.” I New and Improved Oregon Special instantly liked the name, there was a For me, a Bowie knife has to be a wicked Hunting Knife... looking thing: you know... the type of certain “ring” to it. It was a big load off weapon that would start a legend. The For about twenty years I’ve carried a my mind to finally know what kind of little knives that some folks call Bowie little fixed blade knife that was used for knife I had on my belt; I’m proud to say knives belong in some paper-pusher’s 99% of everything I cut in the course that the DLK has been a huge success. desk drawer. They could open envelopes of a day. They are dumb looking little Almost everybody wants one now that but not win a battle or start a legend. things, straight handle with a sort of it has a name, and it probably helps that Bruce Voyles said that when you hold a drop-point blade about 3” long. I don’t I’m no longer confused about what kind Southern Bowie in your hand, you can put a lot of finish work in the ones I carry of knife it is. The Whatchacallit knives hear the cannons and smell the smoke. I because they go away so fast (wear out used to just lie on the table at shows and like that. Why not let your emotions tell from keeping them sharp). They usually gather dust. When I have a DLK on my you what kind of knife it is and to heck have a finger cut-out, but never have table now, there is often a line of people with names? a guard. The blades are made of D-2 waiting to look at it. Who could resist a planer blades worked in the hard state, knife that can be used to cut everything Well anyway... I didn’t start out to write and brown Micarta handles are fairly under the sun, and yet you don’t have to about Bowie knives, but to vent my standard. I wear them out in about 18 explain what kind of knife it is. When frustration over the way that knives months because I’m always sharpening asked what kind of knife it is, I say are defined today. Knives are often them. It’s not that they don’t hold an “Dinky Little Knife” with authority; and categorized by sometimes silly names. edge; it’s just that I use them hard enough there are usually no more questions. A few are: tactical, hunting, utility, art, that they get dull on a regular basis, and I (Some facts stretched to make a good fighting, survival, Bowie, camp, fish, won’t tolerate a dull knife. bird and trout and who knows what else. story. No names were changed to protect Can a knife hunt? Does a knife fight? Quite often someone or the other will ask the guilty or innocent.) me what kind of knife it is. This seems Will a dead animal know if the correct This article appeared in our publication like a dumb question to me, and so my type knife is carving on it? several years ago. Certainly good answer could be either nonsensical WHY CAN’T IT JUST BE A KNIFE! enough to repeat. OKCA Free Classified Ads

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MICHAEL PRICE SAN FRANCISCO CUSTOM PEARL BOWIE KNIFE-1852 This Bowie knife appeared and sold on eBay for $7,500. It was a knife supposedly given to Belle Cora who was a lady of the night. I asked Bernard Levine as to its being genuine and he replied: - Bowie knives never came in presentation boxes. They were not used for wedding presents. Boxes were for carving sets, fish eaters, sewing sets, and occasionally handguns. - That knife is not California style, not even close. - I have never seen a SF knife with a solid pearl handle. Might exist, but...that pearl handle and its silver or n/s ferrule came off a piece of New England made table cutlery. Or maybe off an English fish slice. - Blade is 20th century German or Austrian style. Not California, nor any US. Too crude to be a factory or even a kit blade. - Phony Price stamp. Stamped cold after the blade was finished. - Price was still in Ireland in 1852. - Tying fancy knives to fancy ladies is now a popular faker trope. It fools buyers who deserve to be fooled. I have never seen a real example.

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