Queen TL-29

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 TL-29

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I took my son and grandsons up to Janesville WI yesterday for a walk through of the annual Badger Knife Show. It was quite a to-do. We enjoyed ourselves quite a bit.

One of the vendors had an Army Signal Corps (or maybe lineman's) tool set. It's a double leather pouch with TL-29 and a small pair of lineman's pliers. The set was well used but not abused.

The TL-29 was a 1932-1955 Queen. Is this unusual? (Queen TL-29). It doesn't seem to me the TL-29s get very much respect in the collecting arena but all I've seen have been Camillus and Klein. How much effect does a (most likely) WW II Queen have on that collectibility gulf these knives seem to suffer. The guy was asking $75, which seemed a bit high to me. I'm just looking at this from a knife accumulator's point of view, ignoring the appeal it might have for a military collector.

Here's one on eBay with a Camillus TL-29 that's sitting at $51 right now but the sheath is (like new) in much better condition than the one in Janesville.
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-WW2-CAMILLU ... 4a9fa48e89
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