Need Help IDing this old Pocket Knife

[theOzman]

Need Help ID'ing this old Pocket Knife

Hello Community,

This is my first time posting, so please forgive if I'm not posting this in any formal way. Why I'm here... I was out hiking in a very remote area of the Santa Cruz mountains (CA) and came across the following pocket knife resting quite easily on a rock on a very exposed hillside. Again, the area where the knife was found is extremely remote, so my thinking is that the knife was left there long ago, likely by someone that was out doing the same thing that I was doing, stopped for a moment, put the knife down and then forgot to retrieve it before they left and it's been there, untouched, ever since. The knife is roughly 3 inches long and 3/4 of an inch wide. It has 3 retracting blades (all rusted and unmovable) and 3 corresponding rivets on each of it's two sides, with one side adorned with a crest. I've done minimum research on this, but thought that folks on here, who're clearly passionate about this type of subject matter, would be more qualified than I to make a better than educated guess.





Thanks!

Oz

 

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[theOzman]

Thanks! Yes, I've gotten as far as identifying it as a possible Imperial knife, now, if that's correct, just want to be able to give a manufacturing date to it. Seems that it may be a bone cigar/ cattle knife, though I'm not certain.

Oz

 

[BosnMate]

Welsome to T-Net. Great pictures, sure wish I could help, but pocket knives have been around for a long time, and to me they come in various styles that resemble each other, yet come from different manufactures. Odds are there are other people on here that can help you out.

 

[BosnMate]

Thanks! Yes, I've gotten as far as identifying it as a possible Imperial knife, now, if that's correct, just want to be able to give a manufacturing date to it. Seems that it may be a bone cigar/ cattle knife, though I'm not certain.

Oz

In one picture it looks like it might have a leather punch for the third blade, which would possibly be a Boy Scout knife. Hard go say.

 

[tamrock]

Grandpa referred to those as jack knives.