Colonial knife company?

Colonial Knife was incorporated in 1926 by three brothers; Antonio, Domenic, & Fredrick Paolantonio. It grew to become one of the largest pocket knife manufacturers in the US during the 1960s. The company shut down in 1998, but was back into production under the Colonial Cutlery International Corporation in 2001. Colonial Cutlery International, Inc. brand is the imported line of knives and tools while the U.S.A.- made products fall under the Colonial Knife brand.
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updated web site is http://www.colonialknifecorp.com

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give it a try, love to hear feed back

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So,did Colonial make the Anvil knife or what? I have an identical knife that was sold to me as an Anvil Cutlery knife. Mine has Anvil on the tang with Prov, USA underneath. Another blade has the patten number of 3,317,996, the Colonial name is nowhere on my knife.
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Steve Paolantonio posted this answer on the previous page of this thread.
colonial knife corp wrote:introduced into the Colonial line of products during the 1970's the Anvil brand series was desgined by the students at the Rhode Island School of Design. there were the standard three size, small med. and large all three blades.
The Anvil sereis was manufactured until the the year 2000.

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Anvil was a trademark owned and manufactured by Colonial Knife Corp.
I have one of the Anvil knives. It is a good quality user knife, on par with an Old Timer or a Camillus. A quality knife made to use!

There are millions of Old Timer brand knives & Uncle Henry brand knives, yet there was no Old Timer or Uncle Henry knife companies. They were merely brands owned and sold by Imperial Schrade Corp. The same is true of Anvil; the brand name is owned by Colonial and was manufactured by them.

I hope that clears things up a bit.
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Well, I did a google on the patten number and it shows the registration belongs to Colonial, even though the name Colonial is nowhere on my knife. There was a real Anvil Cuttlery Company that make actual Anvil pocketknives from around 1920 to 1922 but they went out of business and that is where the Anvil knife originated. My knife was sold to me as being made by the original Anvil company 1920-1921, and I'm very disappointed to learn otherwise. Ive seen two identical to mine except they have Colonial on the tang, mine has Anvil USA and a patten number that turns out to be Colonial. There is one for sale now on ebay for a buy it now price of $99.
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I'm in the process of updating my photos of my knives and will have more to show but for now here is probably my most unusual Colonial knife with folding cleaver blade.Picked up on e-Bay awhile back.Not a very practical design from a couple of points:the pivot rivet really isn't strong enough to absorb much of a blow as the result of using the cleaver and probably the most important:with the cleaver blade folded,it is almost impossible to grip the handle to use the clip blade.
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knife7knut wrote:Not a very practical design from a couple of points:the pivot rivet really isn't strong enough to absorb much of a blow as the result of using the cleaver and probably the most important:with the cleaver blade folded,it is almost impossible to grip the handle to use the clip blade
That is why every one I have ever seen was in unused condition, or only very lightly used ::nod::
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Here's a couple more Colonials:
A TL-29 type advertising the Buckley Powder Co and DuPont Explosives.
A TL-29 with saw cut scales.
A TL-29 type Barlow.
A WWII era pilot's survival knife.Only two companies made these(as far as I know):Colonial and United Cutlery of Grand Rapids Michigan.I have both.
A two blade peanut style with cracked ice scales inset.
A 3-blade TL-29 type with wood scales.One blade marked Colonial and another marked High Carbon Steel USA.
A baseball bat knife advertising a Chrysler dealership.
A letter opener knife with a serpentine handle and inlayed cracked ice scales.
A yellow scaled lockback.
A pipe knife.
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A more appropriate blade for a coke bottle frame :lol:

5 1/4" Basket weave cell fish knife - 1940s? ::shrug::
These can be found in red basket weave also.

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Never seen that handle material before ::tu::
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Miller Bro`s wrote:Image

Never seen that handle material before ::tu::

Those started showing up on e-Bay awhile back;I believe there was blue,red,and green.Somebody posted a couple in one of the threads but I can't recall where.
At first I thought someone had got hold of a bunch of old knives and re-handled them(I still do)but supposedly they were legit.Maybe Steve from Colonial will see this post and comment on it.
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knife7knut wrote:
Miller Bro`s wrote:Image

Never seen that handle material before ::tu::

Those started showing up on e-Bay awhile back;I believe there was blue,red,and green.Somebody posted a couple in one of the threads but I can't recall where.
At first I thought someone had got hold of a bunch of old knives and re-handled them(I still do)but supposedly they were legit.Maybe Steve from Colonial will see this post and comment on it.
Jim Parker bought a huge hoard of those Colonial coke bottle folders in the 1970s and resold them. I believe they were old stock direct from the Colonial factory, 1950s era knives. They are legit.
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Here's a few Colonials in there blister packs I need to knock the dust off of and sort out!

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Sorting complete ::tired::
still got another box full under the bed
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These can  be found with 2 different jig patterns
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These can be found with 2 different fork prongs. The "wide" one, as shown, and one with "thin" prongs.
These can be found with 2 different fork prongs. The "wide" one, as shown, and one with "thin" prongs.
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:o :shock:

Where on earth did you find all those blister paks Joe ::shrug:: :lol:
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That's it for now ::paranoid::

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I have an old colonial with a cracked handle. Will the warranty cover that.
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Nice collection Joe! ::tu:: ::tu::
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these Colonials are gettin as hard to find in the blister pack as some of the Imperial and Hammers.
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::tu:: love the set of toothpics
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Found a few more while sorting out the Imperials blister packs I posted in the Shell thread. (I think this is the last of um ::shrug:: )

Thanks for your approval folks. :D There's just no way to display these things unless I put a store display isle in my living room ::hmm:: . :mrgreen:

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Or you could buy an OUT building Joe ::woot::
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Suhweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet knives Joe!!

I just landed this white Colonial. I believe it was imprinted....in the right light you can see the word "ALASKA" and a team of dogs pulling a sled.
Also, look closely at the blade, I know it's KNOT damascus, but doesn't the staining look cool?
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Cool patina, Scott! Musta been kept next to a celluloid out-gassing.
Want to force a patina... try a little nitric acid! ::suspense::

You can see the sled dogs on the handle by tilting the computer screen. ::nod::
::hmm:: I think it was supposed to look like that. It's just a whiteout condition....

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White out......very funny Joe. Props!

Serious? Next to a celluloid out-gassing?
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