I H Anderson ?????????????????

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Very cool Jack.
Thanks for sharing.
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Lots of profound and good advice written in that letter.
Those kinds of words can only come from someone with years of experience.
Older folks have years of wisdom to share.
Anyone out there who still has there Grand parents or elderly parents,
spend as much time as you can with them. They can still teach you many thing you can't learn in school.

Thanks for sharing your letter.

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<PS>what's the (I H) stand for in your Great Grand Dad's name?
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I know that his first name was Ira. My father's middle name was Harvey. I think it came from his grand father.
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I have about ten more pictures to share. You will know as much as I do after I share them about I H Anderson. Jack Jones.Image
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I H AndersImageon knife photo.
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I H Anderson menu of prices.Image
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This is the other side of I H Anderson's mImageenu.
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Neat stuff! ::tu::
Please keep posting!
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Great stuff, guys! ::tu::

Hay JW, I have some pewter you can have. I harvested some from
a few old NYKC utensils that had some nice bone I wanted.

PM me your address. ::handshake::

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These are Imagerest of the images of my I H Anderson knives that I have. JackImage
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My sister tells me Image that the H in I H was for Hamer not Harvey. JackImage
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These are the last 2 pictures I have to share of I H Anderson and his knives.Thank you for your interest. I hope you found these beneficial. JaImageck JonesImage
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Hey JACKHACK,

I found your patent number.
It is (D154,719)

Wonder if I H Anderson had a patent for his special formula?
The knives I have are stamped I H Anderson and not etched like yours.
The ornamental inlay of the pewter is different too.
But look the same on the menu of knives you posted.
Looks like your knife was made by S & S and they used your Great Granddad’s formula which he may have sold to them or the patent on it may have run out.
The knives I have look much older than the late 40's.
Maybe with the info you provided, I will eventually get a definitive answer.

A few more questions:
Do you know what years your Great Granddad made these knives?
When was he born?

Thanks for your info about your Great Granddad~

JW


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Jack,

Thanks for posting all this valuable information ::tu:: :D
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Hello Jack Jones, and all you other AAPKers...
This is my first post here. I have no idea whether posting to this old thread will even get noticed, but what the hey, I'll go for it. I cannot come anywhere near matching thee quality and interest inherent in your first posts, Jack. That letter in particular from your 77 year old great grandfather to your father was particularly poignant - a plan for a good man's life all in a few words.

I don't collect knives, but when I found one of Ira's (a boning knife), I had to have it. It was loaded with character, and was super-sharp to boot. I'm writing now in the hopes that we can find more info to fill out the I.H. Anderson timeline, so I'll post some questions and see what comes of them . I found a notice in the March 19, 1946 issue of the Hillsboro (Ohio) Press Gazette that the I.H. Anderson Knife Company plant had gone up for sale, so I presume that sometime prior to that S&S may have taken over production of the Anderson knives. Does anyone know when that transition would have occurred?

Jack, your great grandfather would have been 77 when he wrote that 1939 letter to your father. Was he still operating his business at that time? Do you have the date of his passing? The S&S blurb on the cardboard knife sheath says that I. H. Anderson had been making knives for 35 years, so that would have had him starting production - I'm guessing - somewhere around 1910-1914. He would have been around 50 years old at that time. I presume he must have been a knifesmith for some time before that, but not running his own operation. Do you know if he worked for another knifesmith, or was his own father perhaps a knifesmith? Now...about all those threads suggesting that there was an I. H. Anderson making knives around the time of the Civil War. If that is the case, then I imagine that would have been his father. On the other hand, that could simply be a research error. It would be great to settle that issue once and for all.

Finally...I have just begun to research I.H. Anderson knives. I haven't checked as to whether there are carbon steel knives bearing his stamp, or if they are all stainless. Maybe some of you have a ready answer to that one.

Here are some pics of the I.H. Anderson knife that I have...
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IH_Anderson_boning_knife_closeup.jpg
IH_Anderson_knife_back.jpg
IH_Anderson_boning_knife_top_resized.jpg
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Is this have anything to do with I. H. Anderson knives?
Is this have anything to do with I. H. Anderson knives?
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Welcome to AAPK. I don’t know what that item is in your picture, but I.H. Anderson isn’t a very common name so my guess is it’s probably related in some way. I have no idea how. ::shrug:: The original post in this thread and the thread itself is several years old and many of those who posted in it haven’t been active on this forum for a good while. It will be interesting to see if anyone knows something about it.

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This is an example of an old thread in which none of the pictures posted on page one and half of page 2, still show. Makes the words harder to fully comprehend.
A good example of why it is so important for AAPK to store all the pictures. Threads with missing pictures are actually not often encountered here.
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I have a pretty good idea what it is , I would like to see a picture looking straight down on the top edge. Is there a slot along the length of it?

If so its for holding butcher knives and the two hooks on the front side are for hanging the sharpening steels on ::nod::
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