Queen Rawhide Folders

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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Spectrum
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Queen Rawhide Folders

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Most of the knives in my small Queen Cutlery collection are current or recent production items, but I do occasionally look on eBay for older knives. Here's a few of my recent finds:
the first is a large folding hunter lock-back in the "Rawhide" series. The blade has a faint
etching that says "The Paul Revere" and "Rawhide No. 8450" and there is a picture of
Paul Revere mounted on a horse sounding the alarm that he is so famous for. The bolsters are nickel-silver and are quite thick, the scales are stag and are also thick.
The knife is more substantial and than a typical Buck 110 and the quality is superb. It came without a box or paperwork but is in virtually new condition and is one of my favorites.
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A more recent find is this set of two "Rawhide" series knives in a vinyl covered steel clamshell
case. The small stockman's blade is etched " The Rawhide Series / No. 4210 440 Stainless" and
the medium sized lockback folder's blade is etched "The Rawhide Series / No. 4225 440 Stainless".
Both knives in the set have nickel-silver bolsters and brass liners and pins.
The foam that lines the interior of the box has degraded badly and the knives were stored in them
for a long time. The knives cleaned up nicely and except for some faint scratches on the lock-back's
front bolster they are in like-new / unused condition.

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gino
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Re: Queen Rawhide Folders

Post by gino »

Spectrum, those are great looking knives. I wouldnt mind having them in my collection. ::envy::
-( life is too short to carry a cheap knife )-
mito0
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Re: Queen Rawhide Folders

Post by mito0 »

:shock: :shock: :shock:
that stag is outrageous!
you don't see stag of that quality very often anymore.
nice find!
Spectrum
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Re: Queen Rawhide Folders

Post by Spectrum »

Thanks for the comments, gentlemen- I just had to show these off! Until I joined a knife forum, I never knew about Queen Cutlery. I bought one of those Bluegrass Cutlery Case Bros. collectors knives ( a 63039 Sowbelly Stockman) and wanted to find more information about it. It was by far the nicest Case knife I had ever seen and I found out that it had actually been made by Queen Cutlery. Since then I've aquired a few Queen and Schatt & Morgan knives and have been pleased with them all.
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