Tiny Pocket Knife

[Kepis]

I was given a pocket knife yesterday by my Mum, she found it in the bottom of her button box, thing is i can remember my Nan having and using this knife when i was a kid and that's a few years ago now.

The knife is still in really good nick considering it's age, it was made by Richards of Sheffield who are no longer trading unfortunately, so as well as being a bit of family history, it's also a bit of knife making history as well.

Shown alongside a 1p piece for scale

 

[whats wrong with you all]

i have a couple of Richards penknives as well, they seem to pop up all over the place!

 

[Samon]

Me too, think I have s blue handled one somewhere and I had an orange one when I was a boy. Cute little knives, I'll check the makers name later if I can find it but it looks identical.

 

[Barn Owl]

Is that one that was sold off the big card you used to get in the corner shop?

 

[sasquatch]

Nice knife, I've got a little Richards as well. Not as nice as that one though! Great it's come from your family as well. Are they mother of pearl scales or ivory? Hard to tell in the pics...

 

[Samon]

Just found mine, same maer but in need of a polish! Pretty sure they're plastic and mine still has the key ring.

 

[Kepis]

Are they mother of pearl scales or ivory? Hard to tell in the pics...

Plastic made to look like Mother of pearl im afraid

 

[shaggystu]

lovely little knife. i've got penknife with a small blade that looks pretty much identical to the blade on yours, it makes a great fingernail cleaner

stuart

 

[peaks]

Definitely remember them on the card in the shop.............. and think they did a slightly larger version also on the card.

Thought they were great knives when I was kid!

Still carry a SAK Classic as my EDC - a hangover I guess............

 

[Harvestman]

Got something very similar in my survival kit as an emergency knife. Holds a good edge too.

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

Weren't they meant to be fruit knives? I remember my nan using one to slice her apples.

 

[Toddy]

I have one of those too It was just the wee pencil sharpening pocket knife that was handy to have at hand or in a bag. Pencils, opening parcels, cutting a bit of string; that kind of thing.
One of our elderly neighbours used one just like it to cut his pipe tobacco.....that one was stained almost teak brown
They do keep a good edge though Replaced nowadays by the tiny spyderco's or the mini swiss army knives.

cheers,
M

 

[Toddy]

Weren't they meant to be fruit knives? I remember my nan using one to slice her apples.

I have one that's a fruit knife, but it's about twice as long and it has mother of pearl scales.

cheers,
M

 

[Wayne]

Nice little knife reminds me of my first pen knife. Sadly now disappeared.

 

[Jacknife]

I've got one just like it. One of the first knives I ever owned when I was a kid.