Queen Cutlery made knives for what other brands?

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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I have been searching for a few days now to try and find a list somewhere of all the companies for whom Queen made knives. Is there a resource that would be a comprehensive list? I can’t find it searching this forum or on the internet.
I know they made knives for:
A.G. Russell
Case Classics
Colonel Coon
Kabar
Smoky Mountain Knife Works
Winchester
Robeson Shuredge and Mastercraft
Marbles
Any others?
There are a lot of new collectors that I speak to that have no idea that Queen made so many other brands of knives. A complete list would be handy.
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These are brands that I have (or had--traded the hawksbill) in my collection that aren't marked Queen, but made by Queen.


Ontario--the Old Hickory folders were all Queen, and there were a TON of Ontario and Queen military folders that look identical. It seems there was also a "workhorse" line of carbon steel Queens well into the Delrin era that were sold as Ontarios and had "OK" stamps".
Moore Maker--through the very end of Queen. I had a #1L with an "OK" tang stamp but traded it for a Big Chief.

Moore Maker offered Queen-made knives from the beginning of MM in the '90s to Queen's closure. I think Queen's closure resulted in Case making some of the Moore Maker models in recent years.
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Thanks Cody, I forgot about Moore Maker and Ontario. It will be interesting to learn if there are others besides these mentioned so far.
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Sharpnshinyknives wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:25 pm I have been searching for a few days now to try and find a list somewhere of all the companies for whom Queen made knives. Is there a resource that would be a comprehensive list? I can’t find it searching this forum or on the internet.
I know they made knives for:
A.G. Russell
Case Classics
Colonel Coon
Kabar
Smoky Mountain Knife Works
Winchester
Robeson Shuredge and Mastercraft
Marbles
Any others?
There are a lot of new collectors that I speak to that have no idea that Queen made so many other brands of knives. A complete list would be handy.

These are in my notes. I don't remember where I got it. Besides the ones already mentioned.
Blue Grass Cutlery
Moore Maker
Northwoods (Marbles)
Scagel( Marbles)
John Primble
Bowie Corp
Chris Tenney Tenney Trading Co.
Cripple Creek (Blackjack)
Family Tree series for Parker ( Kinfolks, Platts, Standard Knife, Crandall)
Bull Dog Brand
Bowen Knife Company
Bob White Cutlery
Sargent/Sarco
Voyles Cutlery
Scanner Cutlery
Sampson
Canal St. Cutlery
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edge213 wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:58 pm
Sharpnshinyknives wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:25 pm I have been searching for a few days now to try and find a list somewhere of all the companies for whom Queen made knives. Is there a resource that would be a comprehensive list? I can’t find it searching this forum or on the internet.
I know they made knives for:
A.G. Russell
Case Classics
Colonel Coon
Kabar
Smoky Mountain Knife Works
Winchester
Robeson Shuredge and Mastercraft
Marbles
Any others?
There are a lot of new collectors that I speak to that have no idea that Queen made so many other brands of knives. A complete list would be handy.

These are in my notes. I don't remember where I got it. Besides the ones already mentioned.
Blue Grass Cutlery
Moore Maker
Northwoods (Marbles)
Scagel( Marbles)
John Primble
Bowie Corp
Chris Tenney Tenney Trading Co.
Cripple Creek (Blackjack)
Family Tree series for Parker ( Kinfolks, Platts, Standard Knife, Crandall)
Bull Dog Brand
Bowen Knife Company
Bob White Cutlery
Sargent/Sarco
Voyles Cutlery
Scanner Cutlery
Sampson
Canal St. Cutlery
Thanks David, there are several on that list that I didn’t know about. I can usually tell when I am holding a Queen made knife and I have suspected that some were but had no other corroboration.
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You can add "Maher & Grosh Cutlery" to your list.
Commencing in 2016 by Roger Cunningham and Ken Mundhenk. Roger is an active member here within AAPK.

The below pictured three "General Custer's Favorite" were produced by "Queen Cutlery"
Queen went out of business shortly after the below Hunters were produced. All future Maher & Grosh knives were produced by "GEC"

"General Custer's Favorite" Hunters, sold through AAPK in November, 2016:

1. Bone Stag. 2 Blade
2 .Bone Stag. 1 Blade
3. Ebony Wood. 2 Blade

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IMHO some of the best Queen made are Schatt & Morgan. Don’t see them on your list but they owned the brand, like they did Robeson.

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Old Folder wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:35 am You can add "Maher & Grosh Cutlery" to your list.
Commencing in 2016 by Roger Cunningham and Ken Mundhenk. Roger is an active member here within AAPK.

The below pictured three "General Custer's Favorite" were produced by "Queen Cutlery"
Queen went out of business shortly after the below Hunters were produced. All future Maher & Grosh knives were produced by "GEC"

"General Custer's Favorite" Hunters, sold through AAPK in November, 2016:

1. Bone Stag. 2 Blade
2 .Bone Stag. 1 Blade
3. Ebony Wood. 2 Blade


Queen made 1.JPGQueen made 2.JPG

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Mumbleypeg wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:41 am IMHO some of the best Queen made are Schatt & Morgan. Don’t see them on your list but they owned the brand, like they did Robeson.

Ken
Queen didn't actually own the Robeson name. Ontario did.
A sister company of Queen. Servotronics owned Queen and Ontario
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Thank you Dan, I was completely unaware of these Maher and Grosh knives.
I didn’t mention Schatt and Morgan since they are already so closely associated with Queen. When I think of Queen made knives for me the best standard is Schatt and Morgan.
I wonder when the GEC fanatics are going to wake up to the high quality knives made by Queen for Schatt and Morgan, Winchester, Robeson, etc?
When you compare the quality of Queen made knives at their finest, it’s just as good as GEC. I think Bill Howard is the reason behind this since he was at Queen at the time and now is at GEC.
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This is my list of brands that Queen made, or had a hand in helping out occassionally.

Queen Cutlery
Queen City Cutlery
Schatt & Morgan
Robeson (Shuredge and Mastercraft)
Old Hickory
Bluegrass Cutlery
Case Classics
Winchester
Moore Maker
Marbles
Northwoods
Scagel
John Primble
Bowie Corp.
Chris Tenney
A.G. Russell
Cripple Creek
WR Case & Sons
Kinfolks
Platts
Standard Co.
Crandall
Bulldog
Bowen Knife
Bob White Cutlery
Sargent (Sarco)
Voyles
Kabar
Swanner Cutlery
Sampson
Canal Street
Colonel Coon
Rigid
Browning
Ontario Knives
Three Bear Cutlery
Tuna Valley
Maher & Grosh
Coleman
Curtin & Clark
Trestle Pine
Queen Classics
Siple Cutlery
Cougar Creek
Smokey Mountain Knife Works
Tons of military knives made that are unmarked

Likely 100 others
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Thank you Rookie. Now that’s a comprehensive listing. I sure wish there was a way to have pictures of every knife pattern that they made for all these other brands, but that would take up hundreds of pages I’m sure.
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Fred Sampson had his own Stamp too.
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edge213 wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:01 am
Mumbleypeg wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:41 am IMHO some of the best Queen made are Schatt & Morgan. Don’t see them on your list but they owned the brand, like they did Robeson.

Ken
Queen didn't actually own the Robeson name. Ontario did.
A sister company of Queen. Servotronics owned Queen and Ontario
Thanks for the clarification. The point I was trying to make and failed quite miserably to do so, is that both Robeson and Schatt & Morgan were more or less “in-house” brands. As opposed to knives contracted to be made for others.

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Mumbleypeg wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:54 pm
edge213 wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 3:01 am
Mumbleypeg wrote: Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:41 am IMHO some of the best Queen made are Schatt & Morgan. Don’t see them on your list but they owned the brand, like they did Robeson.

Ken
Queen didn't actually own the Robeson name. Ontario did.
A sister company of Queen. Servotronics owned Queen and Ontario
Thanks for the clarification. The point I was trying to make and failed quite miserably to do so, is that both Robeson and Schatt & Morgan were more or less “in-house” brands. As opposed to knives contracted to be made for others.

Ken


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I can only add some Kabar - not just club knives but some standard product knives with stag handles.

And Case - Case Classics.
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Bulldog. maybe I missed seeing it above?
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I have a 2blade canoe grooved/pinched bolsters , stamped Standard Knife Co. that I'm pretty sure came out of the shop.
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