Vintage Colonial 3 Blade Electricians Knife Hawkbill Pruning Blade WOOD SCALES!
on September 14th, 2015 at 6:01 pmFellow knife friends…..feast your eyes on this beauty!
I stumbled on this epic pocket knife on ebay a little while back!
The only thing missing on this is the bail.
I happened to receive an email a week after I purchased this knife from Al Paolantonio. Yes sir, that's a son of one of the
three Paolantonion brothers founding fathers!! Since I had an email address now from Al, I decided to inquire about this rare 3 blade elctricians knife.
Al replied back indicating that he thought the time span of production was probably the 1960's – 70's and that it was
his idea to add the hawkbill/pruning blade!! In addition he informed me that the scales are made of rosewood.
There's some hard to get info right there!
Enjoy the pics!
Steel Sahlute!
Scott
The History of the Colonial Knife Company, by Robert Paolantonio
Thanks for this post. I just came across my grandfather's knife exactly like this. Thank you so very much for a bit of the history and the details you've learned.
God bless our Country,
Scott Owens
Wow!! I had one of these knives when I was a youngster. I bought it at a hardware store in town and as soon as my dad saw it it was gone. I was about 10 years old and I guess he thought I was a little to young! No idea what happen with but when I saw your pics. it brought back the menories.
Thank you for that, Tom
The good ol days! Thanks for stopping by Tom!!