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Alright y'all...
New here first post. I've come across a knife that has me absolutely baffled. Blade says Henry Sears and Son 1865 and it says Queen on the side.
I've searched the forums here and there doesn't seem to be a lot of info regarding them.
If anyone has info on history I'd love to know it. I'm also wondering as to it's value

Henry Sears and Son 1865 was a trademark used by FOK (Farwell, Ozmun and Kirk) of Minneapolis, MN.
Many of their butcher knives were stamped or etched "Queen", as well as some of the shields on their folders.
I suspect it had nothing to do with Queen Cutlery.

Case V42 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:53 am Henry Sears and Son 1865 was a trademark used by FOK (Farwell, Ozmun and Kirk) of Minneapolis, MN.
Many of their butcher knives were stamped or etched "Queen", as well as some of the shields on their folders.
I suspect it had nothing to do with Queen Cutlery.

Thank you! I hadn't found that portion on it being trademarked by FOK.

For some reason it didnt post the imgur link
https://imgur.com/a/v6cuTvN

Case V42 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:53 am Henry Sears and Son 1865 was a trademark used by FOK (Farwell, Ozmun and Kirk) of Minneapolis, MN.
Many of their butcher knives were stamped or etched "Queen", as well as some of the shields on their folders.
I suspect it had nothing to do with Queen Cutlery.

Correct - they used QUEEN as one of their trademarks, nothing to do with Queen Cutlery. In fact I think that there was a trademark dispute between Queen and H Sears.

To the original poster - please post pics if you can, sounds like a very interesting knife. You don't see many H Sears knives marked with Queen.

knifeaholic wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 1:47 am

Case V42 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 12:53 am Henry Sears and Son 1865 was a trademark used by FOK (Farwell, Ozmun and Kirk) of Minneapolis, MN.
Many of their butcher knives were stamped or etched "Queen", as well as some of the shields on their folders.
I suspect it had nothing to do with Queen Cutlery.

Correct - they used QUEEN as one of their trademarks, nothing to do with Queen Cutlery. In fact I think that there was a trademark dispute between Queen and H Sears.

To the original poster - please post pics if you can, sounds like a very interesting knife. You don't see many H Sears knives marked with Queen.

Posted a imgur link in the last reply https://imgur.com/a/v6cuTvN

And its been a long time since I used forums haha found the attachment spot

Nice Barlow knife

Great old knife.

Nice HOK (Barlow), and those bareheads just need one drop on the floor for that to happen.

to AAPK too!

Thanks for posting the pics - that is a rare one!!

Wow great old knife I do love old barlows. x10

knifeaholic wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 1:10 pm Thanks for posting the pics - that is a rare one!!

Any idea the value on it?
Ive been kicking around the idea of selling this one