GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:48 am
Can.....
I can't help with information regarding the pocket knife.
But regarding the NORWICH CUTLERY COMPANY, just doing a basic Google search.....
"NORWICH CUTLERY, Norwich, Conn.
This company was organized in the latter part of 1889... The firm made steel knives and blades and their first shipment was made for Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co. in Hartford, which for a number of years took all the production of the plant... by 1930, [production had risen to over 3 million knives per year with over 60 different styles and models in both carbon and stainless steel, all for the various factories of [the International Silver Company]... Because of a severe hurricane in 1938, the plant suffered such extensive damage that it was decided not to re-open."
— Edmund P. Hogan in An American heritage: A book about the International Silver Company (1977), p. 161.
A bit more.....
"According to the University of Connecticut Library records Norwich Cutlery Co was in business from 1853-1921, furthermore that it was purchase by International Silver co in 1898. The international Silver Company was formed in 1898 by various independent New England silversmiths that joined themselves together to form a company that became the world's largest manufacturer of silverware.
BARBOUR SILVER CO. (Hartford),
DERBY SILVER CO. (Derby),
HOLMES & EDWARDS SILVER CO. (Bridgeport),
MANHATTAN SILVER PLATE CO. (Lyons, N.Y.),
MERIDEN BRITANNIA CO. (Meriden),
MERIDEN SILVER PLATE CO. (Meriden),
MIDDLETOWN PLATE CO. (Middletown)
NORWICH CUTLERY CO. (Norwich),
ROGERS CUTLERY CO.,
ROGERS & BROTHER (Meriden),
ROGERS & HAMILTON CO. (Waterbury),
SIMPSON HALL MILLER & CO. (Wallingford),
SIMPSON NICKEL SILVER CO. (Wallingford),
WATROUS MFG CO. (Wallingford),
WILCOX SILVER PLATE CO. (Meriden),
WILLIAM ROGERS MFG CO. (Hartford)."
Just a little more.....
Historic Information.
Companies Associated w/Complex
International Silver Co., Norwich Cutlery Co. Branch 1899-1938
Lehigh Petroleum, Inc. ca. 1940-Present (2015)
Norwich Cutlery Co. 1889-1899
Richmond Stove Co. ca. 1885
Thames Iron Works ca. 1865-ca. 1885
Use (Historic)
Fabricated Metal Products
Rubber & Chemicals
Other: Petroleum Products
Largest Documented Workforce
140 (1930).
Historic Narrative
The oldest building associated with the former Norwich Cutlery Company plant (that flanking the railroad line) was originally constructed ca. 1865 for the Thames Iron Works, a manufacturer of bar and spike iron. By 1885, the building was being used as a storage facility by the Richmond Stove Company, which maintained a large manufacturing plant along the river just over one-half of a mile to the north. The property was acquired by the Norwich Cutlery Company and reestablished as a manufacturing plant in 1889. The Norwich Cutlery Company was organized by William H. Watrous, president of the Hartford-based William Rogers Manufacturing Company and Rogers Cutlery Company, in 1887. The firm began production in 1889, and its entire output of steel table cutlery blanks was purchased by the William Rogers Manufacturing Company for plating and finishing in Hartford. Norwich Cutlery initially employed 50 hands and was capable of turning out 150 dozen knives per day. The company operated in this manner for ten years before being acquired by the International Silver Company in 1899. The International Silver Company was organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey on November 19, 1898. Essentially a holding company, the firm acquired control of 17 of the most significant manufacturers of silver products in the United States and Canada within its first year of existence. Among these were Norwich Cutlery; Rogers Manufacturing; Rogers Cutlery; the Barbour Silver Company of Hartford, Connecticut; the Holmes and Edwards Silver Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Manhattan Silver Plate of Lyons, New York; the Meriden Britannia Company of Meriden, Connecticut; Rogers and Brothers of Waterbury, Connecticut; Rogers and Hamilton of Waterbury, Connecticut; Wilcox Silver Plate of Meriden, Connecticut; the Watrous Manufacturing Company of Wallingford, Connecticut; and the Standard Silver Company, Ltd. of Toronto, Canada. The International Silver Company grew to become the largest producer of silver products in the United States and by the early 1900s had expanded into a massive industrial concern valued at $20,000,000. The company’s operations were based in Meriden, Connecticut, yet it maintained numerous plants throughout the state and the country, including the Norwich Cutlery factory, which was referred to as ‘Factory G’. International Silver made numerous improvements to the Norwich plant and occupied it into the 1930s, by which time employment there had risen to 140 hands. Damage resultant of the 1938 Hurricane, however, was deemed not worth repairing and International Silver vacated the plant at that time. It was in turn acquired by Lehigh Petroleum, Inc., which used it as an office and storage facility into the late-20th century."
There is PLENTY more information to be found.
is that this brand of knife was located in the Connecticut area and they imported a lot of their stuff from Germany and then sold to the U.S market. I am not sure of the vale, 
the Pearson/Norwich I saw was a similar two blade pen knife and I saw it had a $150 price on it ... 
Thanks Skip!!!