Old Scout Knife

[leprechaun]

The old hunting knife post recalled thing that once were taken for granted now are unlawful today.
A coupled of snap shots my old Boy Scouts of Canada pocket knife.

Made in Sheffiels England. The same style of knife that was used by the British & Canadian troops .


Nothing fancy - just memories
Will post later, Tiny Pic seems to be having problems.

[xpatUSA]

The old hunting knife post recalled things that once were taken for granted now are unlawful today.

A coupled of snap shots my old Boy Scouts of Canada pocket knife.
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Made in Sheffield, England. The same style of knife that was used by the British & Canadian troops .


Nothing fancy - just memories
Will post later, Tiny Pic seems to be having problems.

If it's what I think it is, I had one in the late 40's. It was called a "jack knife". They had a big spike that was said to be for digging Boy Scouts out of horse's hooves.

[leprechaun]

I tried Postinage.org to post photod, It seems that tinypic is still inactive.

I got a funny feeling that photo did not resize.


Well so much for using this upload site - very slow and no instruction or help

[Geoff F]

Yes that has appeared very small. There is a discussion about the Tinypics issue and possible alternatives in this thread.

TinyPic

[Rent]

Ted. Where I come from it was for digging Girl Guides out of horse's hooves
Roy

[Wavelength]

Nice images

[rpcrowe]

Actually, this "spike" is a marlinspike which are generally used...

As levers to open strands of laid rope when forming eyes or inserting items into the lay.

To untie knots that have tightened under tension.

As a lever or handle to tension marline or rope using a marlinspike hitch, much tighter than by gripping the line with the hand alone.

As an improvised weapon against hostile boarding parties - mostly off Somalia

[leprechaun]

Trying out Flickr to post photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147717.../shares/wr3xg4
Hope it works
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147717.../shares/JgT5tJ

Well that just links the photo to Flickr. I will have to figure out how to post a photo.

[Geoff F]

How are you posting the link here Pat.

Are you inserting the address into the photo frame icon from the tools bar? Select the icon then paste in the address line. The icon should say Insert Image when you hover your mouse pointer over it.

Initially, I had problems when linking from P base because I wasn't copying the full address; which meant I could see the image but other people could only get the address line text.

Choosing the desired image size before linking, or changing the size in the address line when you insert it here, is another little potential glitch.

Eventually, once I sorted out the initial hitches, I found it only took a couple of seconds to get a direct linking.