I have been getting into antique knives recently and have even sold off a couple of Scrapyard knives to pay for a WW2 FS dagger.
These are some photos of my trip to the local museum here in Prince Albert saskatchawan. For a small museum it has a really good selection of knives and guns
both from the Fur Trade era and WW1 and WW2. This region is steeped in history and pretty much everything is from the immediate area or local vet bring backs.

This first pic is the 2 knives which are my favourites in the collection and were the Dogfathers of the fur trade era the iconic Hudson bay knife.


The stunner in this photo is the war club but the pre white man war hawk is also very cool.


Tis was Big Bear's yellowboy carbine. It has history both for canadians and americans as he was second in command and a excellent war cheif in the Reil Rebellion.
That was our local indian war. After the rebellion he fled to the US and became
a performer in Buffalo Bills Wild West Show with this rifle.

Some more wild west rifles. That Henry is so freakin awesome.


Some handguns and also moving up the years. That big Smith and Wesson on the bottom shelf is a .455


WW1 now and some early body armour and a german spike helmet. The helmet is tiny the kraut must have been 5 feet tall.


WW2 now and the dagger of a high ranking SS officer.


On the allied side we have the Enfield .38 revolver and some classic brass knuks.


This awesome museum is dyeing a slow death from lack of interest. The last curator is now in a home. Some of the items are mislabeled like this Enfield which is a later model than the SMLE it says on the sign. It has also been sporterized but it could have been done during the war for accuracy. This would get you in serious trouble in the British army.


The other rifle is a commercial Ross, the finest rifle of it's day. It was used by the Canadians in WW1 and jammed horribly killing thosands due to fine
precision parts and the wrong ammo. It was soon replaced with the SMLE

WW2 Jungle knife also very scrapyard like.


FS Dagger mark 3. sorry for the reflection. I bought one of these but a second pattern today. It should be here friday.
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Those binocs rule.
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German helmet
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Now a few random edged tools.
sugar axe (more reflections)
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19th century court sword.
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Straight razor
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Weird giant cleaver found in a barn.
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Cool pics Unsub - thanks. I like the fact that our forefather's liked big knives too. Excuse me I need to go skin that buffalo downstairs with my Dogfather. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

great pics bro!!!

That small machete sings to me

gotta make me one!

Very cool. My great, great,... Grandfather came over from France in 1641 to be a Voyageur in Canada. Too bad I don't have some of his original gear.

Some great pictures of our history

Thaks for sharing

Dan

Thanks for the pics. The bowies in that first pic are awesome.

That thing looks like a smachett!

Cool! Gotta' love those Hudson Bay knives!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

awesome photos!

Cool pics! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Very cool.

I just noticed that ALL the pistols have trigger locks. I find that really funny for some reason.