All About Pocket Knives

Here's a few to start off with;the rest I have in groups so they'll have to be separated.
A Utica(curved stamp)bat knife with gold/green flake scales.
A Utica(curved stamp)leg knife with red candy stripe scales.
A Utica Office Knife.
A Utica 2 blade with slant bolsters.

I believe that the stamp on your knife is post 1937 and to get closer I would think after 1950 but I an not positive. I just got 2 more from the Utica Factory collection and will post pictures tomorrow.

I just scored the first Utica that I can ever remember buying and it was a scout knife of course.
Can anyone tell me about when it was made. It has the Utica cutterly com,Utica NY with the Utica at the top in a arch.
It's not as big as I thought so I plan on removing the bell and using it as a edc.
I got it because I liked the way the can opener was made.

This is a nice one hard to find in pearl.

Here are 2 more etched Utica's both from the Factory collection.

Wow those are supper nice and so is that pearl cattle knife.

UTICA scout

Gorgeous bone!!!

What Dale said. How did I miss that one??

thanx guys.....


tj- not sure....but i was SHOCKED i won it for $11
and there were other bids .....

even a BLIND DUNG BEETLE finds a TURD ta roll around every once in a while

Shucks, that's .25$ per blade and the rest of it was free.

You lucky man

I found this old girl hiding at the bottom of display at a junk store $9. It looks early and is in good condition. I love the bone. Still has some snap too. Served someone well. I cleaned a pound if crude out of it before it would work. First UTICA I ever got

love it!! great lookin knife
what a score!

Just found this thread looking for a Utica Cutlery tang stamp chart.......

Here's my recent camp/utility knife:

I'd love to find a dating chart too, Scott. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, Utica only used about four or five stamps since they're conception. I've seen two variations of the arched UTICA stamp, then the straight line stamp with the made in USA stamp and the KUTMASTER stamp. I'm guessing that the arched stamp was used up to 1937 when they went to the KUTMASTER stamp while still using the straight line UTICA stamp for who knows how long, and of course the modern arched stamp. Dating a UTICA, I think, will always be a mystery.

Picked this one up at the CKKC show. Ok first off knife is a little over 5" closed. I know it's been modified. I have seen another way back when that was done with finger grooves instead of the deep sway. Question was this a contract knife or did Utica make it? What would the pattern be? Age I believe the curved Utica stamp is early 30's?

I've heard this type of knife referred to as both a banana jack or toad sticker. I would guess that Utica made it. Case, Remington, Napanoch, Valley Forge, Winchester and a host of other companies made the pattern. Most are early pre-1940 knives but the pattern has been resurrected in newer knives as well.

Fine looking blade in your knife!

Wayne

Looks to me like, at some point in time, someone took that to the garage and made an EZ-Open out of it. I do like that saber ground blade.

It has been 5 years since I posted this knife on AAPK. There might be some new members that have never seen a curved UTICA stamped knife with slanted grooved and pinched bolsters, whittler pattern, with 3 back springs and a great etch.

And that is a real true beauty in every way.

I don't know where you got that Bert but it is an absolute stunner.

This one is not mine but owned by a friend, has the same hardware brand etch.

Nice.

Pretty,very pretty Mike.