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unknown knife

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:05 pm
by petekuhn
Anyone seen this GEO Rose knife before ?
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Re: unknown knife

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:17 pm
by djknife13
No, but I like it. Neither Goins or Levine have any info on this maker.____Dave

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:30 pm
by New_Windsor_NY
petekuhn wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:05 pm Anyone.....
Try searching for "ROSCO"
ROSCO for George Rose Co. a California importer & retailer in the 50/60s.

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:34 am
by stockman
Cool knife, it look older than 50-60’s to me, but maybe not. Harold

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:53 am
by edge213
Definitely older than 1950-60s.

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:17 am
by petekuhn
Steel liners old style kick. I had looked at the rose trowel company in Phlia . They made knives in the 1800s. There are a few rose in Ny as well.

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 11:37 am
by djknife13
To my eye, it looks early English and before 1950 for sure. I've been wrong before.____Dave

Re: unknown knife

Posted: Sat May 03, 2025 3:12 am
by danno50
George Rose is listed in Tweedale's new 3rd edition, "Directory of Cutlery Manufacturers 1740 to 2024". George Rose was listed as a pocketknife maker at Wadsley in an 1825 Sheffield directory. His father, his son and 2 of his brothers were also listed as involved in the cutlery trade at Wadsley. All of them were dead by the early 1850s, with George living the longest, dying in 1855.

Are the bolsters integral on your knife?