Barlow knife

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The barlow knife is a type of slipjoint pocketknife, generally consisting of an elongated oval handle with two blades.^[1]

[edit] In fiction

• Tom Sawyer, of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" owned a barlow knife:

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Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that - though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury, is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.

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[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Barlow-knives
• History of Barlow knives