Easy open knives feature a notch near the wide end of a common jack knife pattern, typically a swell end knife. The spear point blade can either be opened with the nail pull or by grabbing the exposed portion of the blade in the notch. Sometimes a nail notch is not even present on the blade of an easy open knife.
Easy open knives were especially popular from the early 1900s to the 1950s and were made by companies such as Robeson, Remington, Case XX, Camillus, Schrade Cut Co, and more.
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$145.00
Vintage E C Simmons Wood Easy Open Jack Knife
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$85.50
Older Union Cut Co Easy Open Jack Knife
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$295.00
ORIGINAL ANTIQUE US BALDWIN TIDIOUTE PA. EASY OPEN 2 BLADES POCKET FOLDING KNIFE
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$137.87
Vintage PAL CUTLERY Jack Pocket Knife 1940 s Jigged Bone Easy Open Good Snaps
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$71.00
Camillus Easy Open Jack 4 Line Stamp Knife USA 1930s-40s 3.38" Closed Bone CS
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$84.99
Vintage Russell Grandaddy Barlow Easy Open Folding Pocket Knife #142
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$625.00
Remington Easy Open Jack Knife 1920-1940
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$70.99
Queen USA Winterbottom Easy Open Knife Nice Walk & Talk 1957-1960 Etched Mint NR
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$149.00
Antique Russell Barlow Pocket Knife No Nail Nick Easy Open Rare Bone Handle
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$198.00
Robeson Shuredge Easy Open Jack Knife 1922-1939
