Bald Knobbers

[orchard]

Did any of our USA contingent have any Great-Grandfather's who did a bit of Bald Knobbing ? What was it all about ? Is it legal ?
Cheers

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

They're no Peaky Blinders like are they.

 

[Pat's Van]

I like their rudimentary helmets

they've gone for the old "double-funnel" very snork-like

 

[peteblue]

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-baldknobber.html

Your standard vigilante group.........

 

[peteblue]

I like their rudimentary helmets

they've gone for the old "double-funnel" very snork-like

It was all the rage in the day like......

 

[Dithering Dougie]

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-baldknobber.html

Your standard vigilante group.........

Wish you'd have put that up before I searched Google, some things can never be unseen....

 

[ilikecheese]

Never heard of 'em.

 

[orchard]

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-baldknobber.html

Your standard vigilante group.........

Only standard for someone who drinks Absinthe for breakfast

 

[peteblue]

Never heard of 'em.

Apparently there was also an Anti-Bald Knobbers group as well.......I'm assuming that theirs were hairy.......

 

[orchard]

They're no Peaky Blinders like are they.

Hahaha, must have been a weird time like...wait until some of the Yanks add some flesh to enquiry later...

 

[peteblue]

Only standard for someone who drinks Absinthe for breakfast

No one drinks it for breakfast.......it goes on the corn flakes.......

 

[Pat's Van]

Apparently there was also an Anti-Bald Knobbers group as well.......I'm assuming that theirs were hairy.......

that's two geordies who do a cookery show I think mate, the hairy minges or something

 

[sportbillyblue]

No one drinks it for breakfast.......it goes on the corn flakes.......

exactly .. though I've changed to coco pops recently as cornflakes block my nose.

 

[L4Everton]

I'm much more concerned about those foppish knobbers tbh.

(Face palm for extra gravitas)