All About Pocket Knives

Hemitime wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:26 pm Ken thanks so much for your reply. You have just educated me. Bottom line you are going to cost me some money!!

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:04 pm Very few if any pocket knives were individually boxed prior to the 1980s. They were individually wrapped in paper and packed 1/2 dozen or 1 dozen knives in each box. Very few knives having genuine Winterbottom bone covers were being made after that time - most Queen pocket knives at that time and after had imitation Winterbottom (Winterbottom-jigged Delrin) covers.

So, old pre-1980s pocket knives having genuine Winterbottom bone covers were made at a time when knives were not individually boxed. I don’t know the exact year when Queen began using individual boxes, but it was after most Winterbottom bone knives were made. Maybe someone else knows.

To answer your other question, it depends. I started collecting when there were no individual boxes and most of the knives in my collection are pre-1980s. They don’t have boxes because they were never in individual boxes. If I was a collector of newer knives I might feel differently. As it stands, I don’t give a hoot about boxes, unless they’re really old boxes from the “bulk pack” days.

Ken

Hemitime wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:51 pm And I here it is incurable. I keep telling myself I’m going to slow down, but the mailman keeps bringing me something.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:09 am Willy, do you have any Winterbottom genuine bone knives with boxes? That was the context of this thread. As Gene pointed out there were a few older knives (pre-1980s) that had individual boxes. Which is why I said “very few”. So I’ll give you maybe 5%. Making me ~95% correct. I learned long ago there are very few absolutes in this ole world.



Nice looking knives BTW!

Ken