My first has been on THR in other first knife threads but here it is for you new guys.
The bottom one with the broken off missing blade.
It was given to me at six and was quite the thing in those pre pull tab can days when men were men and beverage cans were steel.
It featured a can piercer on the back that made the perfect size and shape sipping hole!
There was also that amazing fish scaler blade that would denude a bream fish in moments and had a hook remover that could follow a line deep into the maw of the most glutinous cat fish,… AND had a bottle cap remover down near the joint end! That thing would Pop the top off a “co-coaler”, Dr. Pepper, or Orange Crush while the other boys still struggled to open their Scout type knives!
That knife blade could turn a broken off stick to a pointy stick in a flash or even sharpen a #2 Faber to get back to home work in less time than finding an actual pencil sharpener. It even carved out the pieces for a figure four trigger for a bird trap.
Did not survive being tossed at an oak tree worth a darn. Oh the blade stuck jest fine…. And what you see broke off and fell to the ground.
Daddy made me carry that knife the better part of a year to remind me to A. Not throw knives and B. listen to him in the future as he told me A when I got the knife.
When other boys pulled out their knives I was ashamed to pull out my fish scaling bottle and can opener.
Eventually My Grandfather “Papa” got me a Pearl scaled Old Timer. Soon after I got an OH Fish All Cub Scout knife and the pretty knife went in my top drawer in the cigar box of treasured things. The Cub Scout knife stayed with me and in those days got worn OPENLY to public school on uniform days with my Cub Scout uniform on my official belt hook snap hook through the lanyard bail.
The wonderful fishing knife stayed in my Cigar box many decades and the blade stayed in Dad’s jewelry box for decades, but while I still have the “handle” Mom reports the blade to be missing. I was at a gun show a decade back and saw the Upper knife in a loose display and bought it. They now share space in my cigar box.
-kBob