Queen Blade Etch Question

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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Does anyone know what years Queen used this blade etch? Thanks......Bruno
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. Queen Cutlery did
obtain the “QUEEN” Trade-Mark on February 16, 1988. Queen was granted the
Trade-Mark again and was registered on February 22, 1994; No. 1,822,386 and it
is in use today.
All of these knives that used the sandblasted marks had these common
characteristics: all were carbon steel, all had Rogers bone handles, and none had
tang stamps and were marked with the blade marking.

Your specific style of the blade/ engraving is shown on a site I found. Can't find a specific year for the sandblasted blades but at a guess perhaps mid 80s.
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Thanks for the reply. Very helpful.
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bdev, I have one reservation. Queen was using that name before they acquired the patent. They got into some trouble with Sears for doing so. But I'm thinking it is at least possible the sandblast knives went back to 1946. I hope a Queen expert will come along and shed some better light on the topic.
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