Old Queen Cutlery Co. Knives

The Queen Cutlery Company manufactured knives in Titusville Pennsylvania for 96 years. The company opened its only factory there in 1919 and commenced to make some of the best US crafted cutlery you will find. Unfortunately, the Titusville manufacturing plant closed down in 2018.
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toolboy wrote:These do not fold and are not mint, but a neat set
That is a neat set especially that you have the original sheath and box. What's interesting are the two different tang stamps, both from the same era.
Queen used more than a few different stamping in the 40's and 50's.
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Thought I'd give this thread a kick in the pants with some pics. Three Queen City knives with Rogers Bone.

A Queen City 3" Sleeveboard circa 1925-32.
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Queen City 4" Stockman missing one blade. Script tang stamp. Circa ??? prior to 1945.
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Queen City 3 1/4" Cattle Knife with QUEEN CITY stamp. 1922-32
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::drool:: HOKs are great!
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.....those ARE great!!!.......especially the sleeveboard!!...i've got an old Camillus like it, and I love to carry it!!, the bone looks identical to my Camillus!!!........... ::tu:: ::tu:: ......................
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Beautiful old Queens, Bruno.

Here's a Little pearl I got at the Mystic knife show.
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Here's a Queen 4" #31 Half Congress. Winterbottom bone that has aged nicely. This one was someone's EDC years ago as you can see from the blade wear. I carried it to work today and used it on occasion. I'm not a fan of the congress pattern for EDC but the half congress, with only two blades is so thin, that it worked for me. It's now a part of my rotation.
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FRJ wrote:Beautiful old Queens, Bruno.

Here's a Little pearl I got at the Mystic knife show.
Thanks.
Nice pen knife. Seeing your knife made me realize that I don't have one knife with pearl handles. Might have to change that. ::nod::
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All of those old bone scales look great. ::tu::
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That's a real nice little Congress you have there, Bruno. ::tu::
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That pearl just sparkles Joe.
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Thank you, Steve.

Here's another nice little Queen I got recently.

Also shown with previous Queen pearl.
Thanks for looking.
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Hey GUYS, thought I would post my newly pickup here. Very special and Rare knife
Very few and far between in my opinion!! I have been doing ebay day in and day out, for over 7yrs now and I have NOT came across This Queen City pattern before. For those that do NOT know,,This is called WINTERBOTTOM bone. Knife is a real handful at 4 1/4" closed.

Its an Awesome knife to me, that should be posted right here on aapk for everyone to enjoy. I would love to see a catolog picture of it,,,But I dont have a Queen book that will show it,,,anybody??

The only catalogs pics I have are below as there were MANY variations of these knives,,including flat/round bolsters, Different shields, Long pull or not, steel lined or brass, Etc.
Knife may have had a clip blade at one time, very difficult to tell either way.
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Mark,that is the same frame as an NKCA year knife made by Queen.I think 1981.
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Very Interesting Peanut, I will look it up to see what it looks like, Thanks
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Nice pick up. Here's a pic from the Queen website. Same pic you posted but in color.
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That is AWESOME in COLOR,,,Thx
Do you think my knife had a "spear" or Clip master????
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Here is my latest Queen, no tang stamp and can't read the etching, so I'm guessing it is a 60's vintage large easy open melon tester, 5 1/4" closed with a 4 1/4" blade. Got it on ebay and since I didn't have one I bought it (good enough reason) Imitation winterbottom scales and worn down quite a lot but -----? Terry ::tu::
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ratlesnake75 wrote:That is AWESOME in COLOR,,,Thx
Do you think my knife had a "spear" or Clip master????
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I believe it had a clip.
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I thought I would add some photos of the Queen City Cigar pattern. All of these knives are from the 1930s. Notice that two are handled in Schatt & Morgan bone which dates them from the early 1930s after Queen bought the Schatt plant including all inventory and parts. One photo shows a Queen City cigar moose and a Schatt & Morgan Gowanda cigar in ebony. I am sure that Queen City used the Schatt dies to make these wonderful old big knives.

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nifbuf wrote:I thought I would add some photos of the Queen City Cigar pattern. All of these knives are from the 1930s. Notice that two are handled in Schatt & Morgan bone which dates them from the early 1930s after Queen bought the Schatt plant including all inventory and parts. One photo shows a Queen City cigar moose and a Schatt & Morgan Gowanda cigar in ebony. I am sure that Queen City used the Schatt dies to make these wonderful old big knives.

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Great knives David. Thanks for posting them. You just don't see older Queen equal end patterns that often.

PS....any thoughts on the Queen City Capital letter stamp vs. the script stamp? Were they used interchangeably or did one precede the other?
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David, that is a beautiful and impressive collection of old Queens. Good show! ::tu::
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David that is some group of knives.A++
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Regarding the Queen City tang stamps, Fred Fisher of Ohio and Joe Dial of Alabama (both the real knowledgeable Queen collectors) and I discussed this at some length a few years back and based on a number of factors here is what we think is a good estimate: The earlier years at Queen City, 1922 – 1932 they did mostly contract work for jewelry firms in New York and New Jersey. Take a look at this article:
http://www.queencutlery.com/uploads/ESE ... ticle_.pdf
They did do some of their own Queen City knives but it appears that most was contract.
After they acquired the Schatt & Morgan plant and all equipment they closed the Spring St. cutlery and moved everything to the Schatt plant. You can tell this by studying the Queen City knives that were made from the left over Schatt material and dies and noticing that these were most always stamped with the “QUEEN CITY” block lettering. So we think that from about 1933 to the early 1940s that stamp was their primary tang stamp.
Starting in the early 1940s and up until the end of WWII they used the scrip style stamp. That was their stamping during the war on their military production with the only exception being the stamping on the machete. See this article for a little more on that: http://www.queencutlery.com/uploads/Que ... rticle.pdf
Hope this adds a little more information about the sometimes mysterious history of Queen City and Queen Cutlery.
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Those are some awesome Queen knives David !
Always looking for Mint pre war scout knives
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Hey GUYS, What a beautiful Collection of Cigar knives David. Thank you for the clarification on dating also which I believe is Dead on the money. Though I didnt know that the Block letter tang stamps were used right after the purchase of Schatt,,,this is Great info for us Knife guys and We all thank you Sir for your info sharing.

I also give thanks to "Scoutknives" for allowing me to buy this Queen Cigar,,I Now LOVE IT MORE than I did because of its Roots to Schatt!!!
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