#108103 - 02/11/13 12:40 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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I can't help ID it but I would love to see the rest of it!
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#108143 - 02/12/13 05:34 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Okay, here are a couple more photos.
- - - Buckspen
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#108144 - 02/12/13 06:52 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Hey Ben....don't you feel like a "boob" for asking. I sure do! LOL.
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#108146 - 02/12/13 07:06 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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That's a cool scrim. My wife wouldn't care for it though lol
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#108147 - 02/12/13 07:07 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Doug I feel more like a bush!
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#108148 - 02/12/13 08:21 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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That's a cool scrim. My wife wouldn't care for it though lol Yea, though you shall ask, so receive
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#108149 - 02/12/13 08:41 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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OK Guys what about the TATS???
Billy Poyner RKCC CM 021 RKS 5030 NRA Endowment MM SO MOTE IT BE
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#108157 - 02/13/13 06:18 AM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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OK Guys what about the TATS???
Billy Poyner RKCC CM 021 RKS 5030 NRA Endowment MM SO MOTE IT BE Tat's !! What Tat's ?? Those are snake boots Billy
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#108165 - 02/13/13 01:36 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Glad you guys are enjoying the photos. Any suggestions about finding more information about Curtis? I tried some simple internet searches, but didn't come up with anything.
- - -Buckspen
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#108166 - 02/13/13 02:03 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Buck, Found info on Curtis in my Knives '85 book under "Scrimshanders". Jean E. Curtis 2809 Midwood Lansing, MI 48910 517-393-9316 Here's the only reference I found with a quick search on the internet: Link Good luck and welcome to the forum.
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#108167 - 02/13/13 02:06 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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We're here for the articles!!! Not the Pictures!!
Only thing I dug up was a scrimshaw reference made on a Curtis Johnson and a Curtis Wilson. First had a sold knife with Polar cub or something on it. Just a name on the second one! Will data mine some more this evening!
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#108174 - 02/13/13 06:37 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Don't know anything about the scrim but like the art, do you want to sell it? Sorry cap if this is the wrong place for this post...
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#108223 - 02/15/13 02:51 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Tom - Thanks for the information you provided. The knife in the link is interesting and the signature is similar to that on my knife. Mr. Snyder - Knife is not for sale. I just bought it a couple weeks ago and I think it's a keeper. Here are a couple of photos of another interesting knife. This is a Little Bear Bowie with a five inch blade. The handle is scrimshawed by Sandra Brady ( www.scrimshaw-by-sandra-brady.com), a well known and very talented scrimshander. Sandy happened to be at the same show where I bought the knife and she confirmed that it was her work. - - Buckspen
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#166262 - 11/12/17 02:10 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Hey Bruce,
Here is an old Elephant Tusk Tip that I picked up today that you may enjoy seeing. Signed Curtis '87.
(I guess she only had one model to choose from)
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#166264 - 11/12/17 03:37 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Hah! I got a laugh out of that one! Thanks for posting the photos. By the way, somewhere in the last few years, I found out that Jean Curtis is a female. I believe that the knife in the attached photo may be the one that Steve refers to above. It is another #12-5 Little Bear Bowie (appropriate scrim for a Little Bear).
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#166278 - 11/13/17 12:50 AM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Wow! Things sure have changed. I can remember that, a few years ago, I was censored for posting this photo that I took at a model shoot featuring a Randall knife. I was told that the photo was inappropriate for this forum and it was removed. I guess that things have changed.
Edited by Raindog (11/13/17 12:51 AM)
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#166279 - 11/13/17 04:01 AM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Wow! Things sure have changed. I can remember that, a few years ago, I was censored for posting this photo that I took at a model shoot featuring a Randall knife. I was told that the photo was inappropriate for this forum and it was removed. I guess that things have changed. took me a while but I did eventually spot the Randall content
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#166310 - 11/13/17 06:43 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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If my memory is correct I think it got censored because it had a link to other pics with less clothes. But yes I'm glad that there is less censorship than before..........if only we could undo the bans & start fresh.
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#166311 - 11/13/17 06:46 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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So where's the link to the other pics.
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#166312 - 11/13/17 06:47 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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LOL ya have to ask Raindog!
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#166317 - 11/13/17 08:26 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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if only we could undo the bans & start fresh. Agreed !!
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#166318 - 11/13/17 08:38 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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if only we could undo the bans & start fresh. I agree, too! Life is short. Live and let live.
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#166343 - 11/14/17 04:42 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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If my memory is correct I think it got censored because it had a link to other pics with less clothes. But yes I'm glad that there is less censorship than before..........if only we could undo the bans & start fresh. It simply had the url to my personal photography website. It pissed me off enough that I sold over 40 knives and left the Randall community for over 4 years. It left a terrible taste in my mouth. Certainly for the censorship but more so because the complainers didn't have the testicular fortitude to address me directly but chose to blindside me by complaining to the owner of the site instead of simply asking me if I would mind removing the photo. I lost all respect for those people.
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#166345 - 11/14/17 07:08 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Thought Gary fled to the Philippines?
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#166369 - 11/15/17 10:45 PM
Re: Scrimshawed Smithsonian Bowie Signed "Curtis"
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Not yet. Still some medical lose ends to tend to here. Hopefully by summer, just in time for the typhoon season. I need a knee replacement before I go. Arthritis has reduced me to walking with a walker and I'm not motivating too well.
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