W.H.MORLEY & SONS AUSTRIA

[churchill25]

Hello,
I've had this knife on my desk for years,,, thought it might be of interest.
Anyone know more about the origins? W.H.MORLEY & SONS AUSTRIA
Thanks...

[Owd Wullie]

Welcome to AAPK.

That's a NICE one.

I found this old post at Bladeforums.

Actually, for many years, Camillus was a subbrand of Adolph Kastor and brothers. They imported knives from Checoslovakia, Austria, and their own factory, Germania in Oligs-Soligen Germany. These were sold under W.H. Morley & Son, A.W. Wadsworth & Sons, Clover Brand, etc. They also bought the factory at Camillus from Charles Sherwood in 1902 and produced knives there. Those were sold under Cloverbrand, Streamline, Stainless Cutlery, Fairmount, Syracuse, Sword Brand, XLNT, and WIlbert, Dunlap, Sta-Sharp, Kwik Kut for Sears. I think there were more, but I can't remember them all just now.

Codger

[churchill25]

Hi, Thanks for the info, so this may have been manufactured around 1900...?

[Owd Wullie]

Quite possibly. I think "turn of the century" plus or minus 10 years is plausible.

I'm hoping one of the "heavy hitters" that know more about those than I do will weigh in.

[trail]

What I have found suggests W.H. Morley & Sons was a Kastor brand imported from Germany and Bohemia (at that time a part of Austria) from 1913 to 1927.

[knife7knut]

Here is one nearly identical although not in as nice shape.The turn-of-the-century date seems credible.

[churchill25]

Very similar indeed!!! almost identical really....

[Roush428r]

Many of the multi-blades from this era were actually made in Nixdorf, Bohemia which is currently in the Czech Republic.

[cattaraugus57]

knife7knut,that is some knife!...I love it!