Sharps from the bootsale!!

[johnbaz]

Hi all

Went around three bootsales this morning and only got anything at the last one!! (Chesterfield) I scored these four knives very cheaply, going to have to start making some sheathes for them soon!!

Top one has Water Buffalo horn, the chap said it was a Commando knife blade that was used but i'm not entirely sure about that as the two I had disappeared under mysterious circumstances

Folders are both Sheffield made though the mop doesn't have a makers name

Bottom one has some kind of a skin over wood that seems to have shrunk so will possibly need some stained epoxy putting in or copper wire wrapped around then soldered It's a single edged drop point of around 6mm thickness at the spine


Also had a few other bits including an old iron weighing scale (for sweets!) it'll need blasting clean then painting!! there's four weights from one ounce up to one pound, Should make a nice display piece when finished



Cheers, John

 

[copper_head]

Nice haul, you have much better luck at car boots than I do!

 

[shaggystu]

...Went around three bootsales this morning and only got anything at the last one!! (Chesterfield)....

Is there still a boot sale on the donut, or has it moved to the football ground full time now?

 

[johnbaz]

Is there still a boot sale on the donut, or has it moved to the football ground full time now?

Nope, that one's gone now, just the one at the footy ground now


John

 

[Macaroon]

Is that a hallmark on the scale of the smaller of the two folders?

 

[shaggystu]

Nope, that one's gone now, just the one at the footy ground now


John

That's a shame, you used to get the most wonderful cross over of people at the donut, half of them been up since 4 in the search for bargains, the other half been out since the night before in search of......erm.......well bargains too I guess. Some very surreal moments. I've only heard bad things about the footy ground boot sale, really poorly organised from what I understand, I've not been down yet to check it out though, wrong end of town for me

 

[johnbaz]

Is that a hallmark on the scale of the smaller of the two folders?

Hi Macaroon

It's a false assay mark!! It just says WR then two stars then S..

I've given the sheath knives a bit of a clean and polish now and they look better now but the bottom one of the two had some sort of a spacer to fill a gap between where the ricasso should be and the guard which i've removed, I'll have to see if I can remove the handle and reset it..

Otherwise I may have to scrap the handle and make a new one for it



Cheers, John