Knock off Hobo Knife.

[whughett]

Rummaging around a drawer I found this “camp knife”. Cheap Japanese made Hobo knock off I assume. I bought it used in the mid 70’s at a gun show, it wasn’t new even then. Used it two or three times a year at game and steak dinners where the cutlery was plastic and the table ware paper plates.

No brand name.

I replaced it some years later with one that separated into knife and fork, no spoon.

 

[bikerdoc]

I Had one like it in the 60's, dont know what happened to it.

 

[kBob]

Reminds me of one My "Battle Buddy" Andy carried in the service in West Germany. He persisted in calling it his "Swiss Army Knife" even when I showed him what a SAK was actually like.

He always left his GI issue Fork Knife and Spoon out of his mess kit in the field as he "Already had a set"

One Christmas eve we took out a jeep for a motor patrol around our Combat Alert Site and we "borrowed" a fir tree about five feet tall from a tree farm. It was bitter cold and nasty with ice blowing up off the ground more than anything else. I took a couple of wacks at the tree with the axe from the jeep (each one had an axe and d handled shovel called "engineer tools") and it was like hitting concrete. Andy whipped out his Hobo Knife and opened the saw and I laughed.... until he actually cut the frozen little tree down!

We took the tree back to our barracks where we planted it in a sand bucket and the old NCOs (who were still up at midnight playing cards) went nuts and made paper chains, decorations from tin foil ( even pulled cigarette boxes from the trach and made things from the paper backed foil inside) and when I broke out the popcorn maker Grandma W sent me a couple of them made popcorn garlands.

Next morning was one of the best Christmases of my life, thanks in part to such a hobo knife!

-kBob

 

[whughett]

I Had one like it in the 60's, dont know what happened to it.

I bought it at a gun show for $15 or thereabouts.

 

[whughett]

Reminds me of one My "Battle Buddy" Andy carried in the service in West Germany. He persisted in calling it his "Swiss Army Knife" even when I showed him what a SAK was actually like.

He always left his GI issue Fork Knife and Spoon out of his mess kit in the field as he "Already had a set"

One Christmas eve we took out a jeep for a motor patrol around our Combat Alert Site and we "borrowed" a fir tree about five feet tall from a tree farm. It was bitter cold and nasty with ice blowing up off the ground more than anything else. I took a couple of wacks at the tree with the axe from the jeep (each one had an axe and d handled shovel called "engineer tools") and it was like hitting concrete. Andy whipped out his Hobo Knife and opened the saw and I laughed.... until he actually cut the frozen little tree down!

We took the tree back to our barracks where we planted it in a sand bucket and the old NCOs (who were still up at midnight playing cards) went nuts and made paper chains, decorations from tin foil ( even pulled cigarette boxes from the trach and made things from the paper backed foil inside) and when I broke out the popcorn maker Grandma W sent me a couple of them made popcorn garlands.

Next morning was one of the best Christmases of my life, thanks in part to such a hobo knife!

-kBob

Best “Christmas story I’ve heard in years.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I keep a Civil War style pocket cutlery set that gets more usage than you'd think.
It breaks down to a folding knife on one side and a fork-and-spoon on the other.
Stainless, so no one will confuse it with an original.

 

[Speedo66]

I've got this antique one, mahogany, brass, and Sheffield steel.

 

[Gordon]

That is very old ! Guessing around 1850-1880. VERY neat !

 

[mio]

Love that OP! I had one with about the same set-up in the 80s, but yours looks to be a lot better example, and some of the early Japenese stuff was of decent of better quality.
I keep watching yard sales for one for my boy since he loves swiss army knives. I bought him his first cheap gas station one when he was 4yo which didn't make my wife very happy, but a few bandaids later and he was hooked. He saved allowance and bought his first Victorinox at 6yo and now being less than 10 still he has a few collected in a wooden box in his room. He even got me one last year for Christmas.
One of these days I'll bump into one, but until then he will have to make do with his CRKT eatin' tool. Thought about getting him an A.G. Russel actual hobo style knife but I'm not buying one made in China, and I'm not spending the money on a Case for him just yet. Maybe for his Bday when he turns 10.

 

[Speedo66]

Forgot about this one, given to me by an uncle in the mid '50's.

Japanese made, the spoon and fork appear to be stainless, the balance of the blades look like carbon steel. The scales look like jigged bone, the main blade is surprisingly sharp.

Some of the blades look very similar to those in the OP knife, i.e., the scissors, the file, and the bottle/can opener, in addition to the spoon and fork.

Just noticed the bail looks similar, too.

 

[Nature Boy]

These look like they could do serious damage to a can of porn-n-beans

 

[Crazy Horse]

Porn-n-Beans. That's a new one. Haven't heard of that one.

 

[WestKentucky]

These look like they could do serious damage to a can of porn-n-beans

Now I’m cleaning mtn dew off of my desk and my monitors. That stuff hurts when it blows out the nostrils. At least it wasn’t hot coffee.

 

[Nature Boy]

Meant to be PORK-n-beans, but turned out to be a lot funnier