✅ SOLVED Help I can’t read

[Older The Better]

I found this knife a while back and it’s been soaking in acv all the blades are toasted but they move again and on the big one I’ve found this mark but I just can’t make out enough to have a guess to what it says, I thought maybe a knife guy would recognize it

 

[A2coins]

I cant either its not from old age just to much booze lol Nice find..

 

[nhbenz]

I can read “Imperial Prov RI” (made in Providence Rhode Island)

 

[Older The Better]

I suspected it was an imperial by its shape but I just couldn’t see it till you said it, I was connecting the wrong lines I would have bet there was a w I kept thinking brown or power and I was seeing an h and y in the first word

 

[digger460]

It would make a nice pocket saw.

 

[Tony in SC]

The emblem on the handle looks like an Imperial. I remember the display boards in the hardware store.

 

[Robot]

I Believe the Posters Here...Nailed It!

VINTAGE POCKET KNIFE/4 BL/IMPERIAL PROV. R.I./PRE 1945?

 

[Hawks88]

Nice find. Congrats

 

[Older The Better]

Here’s the whole thing robot
I don’t know older or newer than 45 that’s what I was hoping the words would give me a clue but it looks like they just confirm it’s an imperial

 

[Robot]

Get Over It!

In Pristine Condition...It Is Worth $ 6.00 On Ebay...Best Come Over To..Oak Island...And Try And Make Your...Fortune!

 

[Older The Better]

I found it in a spot I just recently came across I’ve found a handful of square nails and some scraps of metal, these look just like the things I’ve found at a known Indian trade site. Then I found this I don’t think the two are related I’m guessing a hunter or a farmer dropped the knife. Maybe the age of the site lies somewhere in the range where square nails and imperial knives existed and the Indian site connection is a coincidence

 

[Older The Better]

I’d go back and look for more but chipping through frozen ground for a bit of wire or a gum wrapper really takes the wind out of your sails

 

[against the wind]

Finding out just what it is you have found is half the fun.
Congrats on The Imperial Knife.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

luck the blade was open, all of mine are rusted closed, nice find

 

[Older The Better]

It was rusted closed, apple cider vinegar works great, it’s a long and smelly process but it’s yielded the best results for me... although I’ve yet to try electrolysis... I really need to take a before picture

 

[A2coins]

really cool knife