Queen City Jack with Early Winterbottom

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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Queen City Jack with Early Winterbottom

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Here's a jack I just received. It's 3 1/2" and has early Winterbottom bone handles. Looks like all steel construction and has the non script tang stamp.
The bone would be real nice if it weren't for a center pin crack on the mark side.

What's interesting is the secondary blade has a half stop and the main clip does not. Looks like the knife is factory original so I don't believe it was a repair job. Have to check into this and look at my other jacks.
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I'm not usually into Winterbottom bone, but that one looks nice. Good score
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Good looking ole Queen!!!
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Thanks guys.
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That's a good one! ::tu::
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treefarmer wrote:That's a good one! ::tu::
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Thanks Treefarmer.
After giving this one a good look over, I realized that this pattern evolved into their Barlow line of knives. It is the same pattern as the #22, #23 and #60 that used the aluminum frame. Also the same as the Drake Well from 1972.
The bolster has a bit of a "hump" where it meets the tang in order to eliminate the sharp tang edge.

Here are a few pic....
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