scanker said:
Great photos. Can you tell me anything of the middle one of the hunting knives - I've got one that looks identical to that. I'm sure it's at least 20 years old.
That is a style of knife we used to see sold around here in hardware stores and sporting goods in the 1960s - and possibly earlier. The other antler handled hunting knife is the one my father found on a portage - and gave to me. It is from an earlier era. I have about two or three more of them - but these are the ones that are special to me.
As to the other knives:
The two top "scalpers" are very old knives that I've inherited - true "scalpers." The third one, the "roach belly," is a reproduction.
Of the fighting knives - the middle one is a very large 18th century kukri - I wish you could see more clearly the incredible smithing workmanship. I've never seen another like it.
The Philipiine Eskrima knife, or short sword: My father, while building a church on Mindanao, in the Philipines, had the cultural naivite to admire a man's knife so the man, and a dozen of his friends, took a two week canoe trip, all heavily armed, to a Muzlim island where they made the best knives and swords - to obtain several knives and swords for my father.
Two of the axes are of the excellent workmanship of Joe de La Ronde - descendent of the 17th century privateer and North American explorer. These axes are very hard to obtain today. The largest one comes from Arrowhead Forge - a very underated smith who does excellent work. The smallest axe I've inherited from an Ojibwe ancestor - it may well have been used in war. The handle is not original.
I have an original Green River knife, from one of my g-g-uncles who traded with the Shoshone in present day Wyoming, but I believe it is out in the shed with my other butchering knives.
PG
He's just shown you his large collection of axes and knives and you're making enquiries about his daughter??? 
