All About Pocket Knives

American_knife_wct wrote: Still want to do more research.

Any more information, American_knife_wct?

I do not have further information. The original location of the American Knife Company was 25 Boyd Street in Winsted. The company was founded in 1919.

Thank you, Sir.

Picked up this nice 3 5/8" teardrop jack, full blades, nice wood. Tang stamp is straight instead of arched, wonder if it's the same company.

Great find John, beautiful knife,pattern, and condition

John, I think it's the same company.
What a fine example you have there.
Thank you for putting it in this thread.
And thank you, Bill, for the added information.

JohnR wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:17 pm Picked up this nice 3 5/8" teardrop jack, full blades, nice wood. Tang stamp is straight instead of arched, wonder if it's the same company.

Really nice Tear-drop jack John ... Yes same company as Joe noted ( ) - If you look back in this thread there are a few with the straight line tang stamps as well as arched stamps... American Knife Co Winsted seemed to use various stamps during their existence - straight or arched, some include Knife Co or CONN etc - guess my point is some variety over the years and not all of them are in Goins - one other thing I find of interest is that all the American Knife Co Winsted knives I have seen are only stamped on the master blade... when I picked up my Am Kn Co Fishjack (a few pages back) I noticed the secondary blade was not marked - I was suspicious until I was at a knife show and saw maybe 5-7 Am Kn Co knives and none had the secondary blade stamped... I am not sure but I think yours may be the only one I have seen with a secondary pen blade stamp (which doesn't mean others may exist) - I need to do a wider search just out of interest ... either way nice score on a sweet knife John ..

Lee, Joe, Bill, thanks guys, Bill thanks for the information. Lee, I have one other American, It's a Barlow that I showed earlier in the thread and it is only stamped on the master blade.

JohnR wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:17 pm Picked up this nice 3 5/8" teardrop jack, full blades, nice wood. Tang stamp is straight instead of arched, wonder if it's the same company.

Really great looking knife, John .

I found another American Winsted. This one is quite small. 2 3/8".
A little equal end pen with celluloid covers. Good action. A nice little watch pocket carry.
Thanks for looking.

Pretty neat Joe, tiny little thing.

Thanks, John.
It is tiny. I have smaller knives and they all have good action off the spring.

The posted text is correct except the company was Bokar. I am the grandson of Domenick Russo. He was a hard working man who never owned a car. Always walked to worked. Rain, snow or shine. A good 20 minute walk easily.

Thank you American_knife_wct. I assume you are referring to the text from Goins Encyclopedia at nine post back.
Thank you for the clarification. Glad you could join us again.
Welcome, and thank you for the interesting insight of your Grandfather, Domenick Russo.

Yes, the Goins encyclopedia.

Here is a straight line American Winsted, that I have had a while but never took a photo. Single back spring. I really like that caplifter Joe.

Here's a signature Empire pattern by American. I flipped the mark side so you could read the stamp. I didn't remember seeing this thread, But I had assumed a German influence to Empire because of the way the bone was hafted on this knife. It's typical for many German knives to have somewhat thicker bone at the bolsters and then dubbed off instead of thinned into the bolsters.

Luckydog64, that is a very much intact and beautiful, American Knife Co.
Such good condition.

Thank you for posting it.

lyle, what a terrific looking knife. A Saddlehorn, if I remember correctly.?

Certainly Empirish. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting it here.

By the way you visited the thread in December 4, 2018. Top of page two.

Thanks for looking in again.

A man with some stunning knives.

wlf wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:39 pm Here's a signature Empire pattern by American. I flipped the mark side so you could read the stamp. I had never seen this thread, and had assumed a German influence to Empire because of the way the bone was hafted on this knife. It's typical for many German knives to have somewhat thicker bone at the bolsters and then dubbed off instead of thinned into the bolsters.

Cool knife

FRJ wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:17 pm lyle, what a terrific looking knife. A Saddlehorn, if I remember correctly.?

Certainly Empirish. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting it here.

By the way you visited the thread in December 4, 2018. Top of page two.

Thanks for looking in again.

A man with some stunning knives.

Duh. And I just read it through. Senility settling in.