ANTIQUE MILLER BROS USA 3 1/4” 2-BLADE POCKET KNIFE BEAUTIFUL JIGGED BONE For Sale

🇺🇸 MILLER BROS. • OLD AMERICAN BONE • c.1920s 🇺🇸

Here’s a little antique Miller Bros. that has the look and feel of a genuinely old American pocketknife. It measures approximately 3 1/4” closed, carries two carbon-steel blades at opposite ends, and is dressed in some especially attractive old jigged bone.

Miller Bros. was one of the notable Connecticut cutlery makers, producing knives in Meriden, Connecticut, before the company ceased operations in the 1920s. A Miller Bros. two-blade pen knife in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History carries the same MILLER / BROS / U.S.A. marking and is dated c.1920–1925, making c.1920s a reasonable period for this example as well. I wouldn’t attempt to narrow it to an exact year.

🦴 The bone is what first caught my attention on this knife. It has that unmistakable old character—rich caramel and amber underneath deep chestnut and nearly black coloration in the jigging. Both sides retain plenty of texture, and the old nickel-silver shield and rounded end bolsters give the little knife a particularly handsome profile.

This one has been carried, used and sharpened, as you’d expect from an antique pocketknife that wasn’t tucked away in a drawer. The carbon-steel blades show gray patina, scattered spotting, scratches and other age/use marks. The primary blade has some noticeable loss from previous sharpening and appears somewhat short, best judged from the overhead photographs.

What I really like is that the old knife still feels good mechanically. Both blades have great snap with no half stops, and the overall mechanics remain excellent. For a knife from this period that has clearly lived a working life, that’s a big part of its appeal.

There is a visible age crack in one bone handle near the pin, photographed closely for an accurate look. The handle remains intact. Otherwise, the bone presents remarkably well and is unquestionably the highlight of the knife.

This Miller Bros. is an honest old American knife with beautiful century-old bone, strong mechanics, a clearly readable Miller Bros. stamp and plenty of character left. The kind of knife that simply looks right sitting among early American cutlery.

🔍 Please examine all photographs closely, including the close-ups of the handle crack and overhead blade views, as they are an important part of the description and show the knife’s condition in detail.

Thanks for looking! Be sure to visit my other listings for more vintage and collectible pocketknives. I’m a longtime collector, and I regularly offer old American and German knives ranging from honest working examples to harder-to-find Top Shelf pieces. New knives are added regularly, so check back often.

Kind regards,

Perry