Early Queen City 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.
Post Reply
Fishnbum
Posts: 26
Joined: Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:25 pm

Early Queen City knives

Post by Fishnbum »

I came across three older Queen City knives in a small collection I purchased the other day. One was a rough black 2 blade jack knife that was familiar with. The other two not so much. I did see from a tang stamp chart that these appear to very early Queen knives. Any info appreciated
13542E0D-EEDF-44D6-8D47-05A3671F2452.jpeg
543144DB-85C4-4DFF-B1B6-3A21A95253F3.jpeg
E494D27B-A25F-4D30-BF98-C118DEC091A8.jpeg
6D94B3A1-57D2-4417-B968-BC3C69EB390C.jpeg
User avatar
bdev
Posts: 1097
Joined: Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:37 am
Location: Hudson Valley NY
Contact:

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by bdev »

If the top knife with the celluloid handles is 3", it is a pattern 38 swell-center pen.

If the Rogers bone handled jack measures 3 3/4", it is a pattern #10 Heavy Jack. if it is 4 1/2" it's a pattern #28 English Jack.

Check out this link......
https://queencutleryhistory.com/index.p ... y-folders/
Queen City. My favorite! Bruno. ::tu::
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by FRJ »

I only have one.
This swell end capped jack. Some sort of composition covers.
A very solid knife with a strong spring.
Attachments
DSCN7703.JPG
DSCN7709.JPG
DSCN7713.JPG
DSCN7714.JPG
Joe
brucegodlesky
Posts: 200
Joined: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:53 am
Location: w Pa
Contact:

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by brucegodlesky »

great find!!!!
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by FRJ »

FRJ wrote: Sat Jan 04, 2020 2:10 am I only have one.
This swell end capped jack. Some sort of composition covers.
A very solid knife with a strong spring.
Now I have two!
I bought another of this very fine Queen City jack knife. 3 3/4" closed.
The spring isn't quite so strong on this one. Maybe because of more use, which is obvious.
I wish they came with different covers. So they are.
I'm wondering what they would look like with black paper Micarta.
These are great workingmans knives.
Attachments
DSCN9609 (2).JPG
DSCN9611 (2).JPG
DSCN9614 (2).JPG
Joe
Gone2Three
Bronze Tier
Bronze Tier
Posts: 725
Joined: Thu Mar 19, 2020 5:32 am

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by Gone2Three »

Those are some great finds there Joe! ::tu::
User avatar
FRJ
Posts: 15183
Joined: Fri May 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Location: Ct.

Re: Early Queen City knives

Post by FRJ »

Thank you Gone2Three, I really like them. ::tu::
Joe
Post Reply

Return to “Queen Cutlery Collector's Forum”