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Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:52 pm**

I have an old knife with this Pat. No. on it with USA under it.

Any Ideas....OldYooper

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:43 pm**

I couldn't find anything cutlery with those numbers, so I decided to do some substituting, since how it was stamped made it hard to read. Looking closer and after randomly substituting numbers for the numbers I couldn't really make out the "9" and the "8", I believe the patent is actually 2297855. I kid you not, there are some WEIRD inventions out there. One of the items I mistakenly came across was a "cow bra".

The patent information seems to point towards Utica Cutlery Co. being the manufacturer.

US Patent 2297855 is for "bolstered handled cutlery"; issued October 9, 1940 and assigned to to Allen Albert Edward/Utica Cutlery Co.

https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=022 ... patimg.htm

https://patents.google.com/patent/US229 ... oq=2297855

Interestingly enough, Albert Baer cited it for what appears to be the Imperial BSA knife.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US289 ... oq=2297855

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:46 pm**

I would agree Utica, based on others that I have seen with that construction.

Posted: **Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:56 pm**

I took A closer Look with my Glasses on the Pat. No. is 2,297,855...Thank you for your quick answers....OldYooper

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