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Knives have been made at the factory of Queen Cutlery Company of Titusville Pennsylvania for over 100 years. It is arguably the oldest and last American Cutlery that truly continues to produce knives in the same way as they were produced there when the factory opened in 1902. The factory’s first tenant was the Schatt & Morgan Cutlery Company: Queen Cutlery Company displaced Schatt & Morgan there in 1933. Queen City Cutlery Company first began to produce knives in 1918 around the end of the First World War, incorporated in 1922, and shortened their name to “Queen Cutlery Company” in January of 1946. Purchased by Daniels Family Cutlery Corporation on September 18, 2012
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Wow, Both of you gave us some great info there!
Here's my view of the knife. First of all, this knife is made on the No 19 pattern but it only has the 19 style spay blade. The No 19 trapper was never made in the stainless era. It did not come out until 1958. They did not make the delrin winterbottom in the stainless era and never made a single blade version in that era. This knife with that spay blade was not made in the that era. The nail nick is on the wrong side of the blade to far out and the wrong shape. So what does all this mean, that this is a contract knife made to customers orders. I have a former good friend and distributer of Queen knives who told me he sold these type of knives to a truck farmer in California who gave to the workers to use and the reason for the spay blade was no point so no one got stuck. No etch and no identifying number was less cost. I feel this knife was made much later and was a good work knife.
Dave,
I saw this knife on Ebay - right? Big spey blade....probably more targeted to genitals (farm animals) than fruit when it was made. I am not strong on the older knives, but the Q centered over "stainless" is often associated more with very early 1950s and not used for too long .
Your photo s great -- I think it is delrin handle - so smooth? I am often surprised at how early delrin was used and how long the transition from bone took. I have a model 36 from mid 60s that is bone.
Lot of detective work and hard-won knowledge with Queen knives. I hope soon Queen will add some catalogs from the 1950s to their Historical documents and lots more questions will be easy to answer.
Thanks for posting
Dan
Dave,
Glad you have found Queen and are liking them. Those heritage series Jacks are sweet I can see why it went straight to the pocket! Check out the new workhorse series also. Wont break the pocket, is very much like the one you just pictured and makes for one heck of a user
I'm fairly new to knife collecting... just always had a knife but didn't know much about them. Been reading and learning more about knives and bought 3 new S&M recently... along with the Doctor's knife below, another pearl handled Doctor's knife (would make a great pipe tool but I don't want to mess them up) and a great Heritage Series Jack that's my current EDC. Found this older queen and it arrived today. Looks to be later 1940s. Nice knife! I'm liking Queen... old and new! ;-)
Ya know what, Dave...I'm gonna step back from my statement about your knife being made in '94. Because, although the numbers correspond to your knife, my records indicate that the S&M Doctor's knife in '94 were an orange colored corn cob jigged bone. So, I guess your Mossy Swamp remains a mystery?
I believe your knife was made in 1994, Dave?
That's the year that the numbers - 042 296 - etched on the spatula blade seem to correspond to.
Pretty, small pocket knives are for small jobs. The bigger mountainman with a lock and a large blade and handle is a superb knife if you have real work to do..
Since its humble beginning in the mid 1970s, Queen has steadily upgraded and improved this knife. Once upon a time I heard some complaints of loose lock-up- 13 of the14 models I have were tight, strong, and sharp.. The one that wobbled a bit was fixed great by the factory without any hassle and was back in my hands in less than a month - Queen honors it warranty.
There have been some wonderful special editions - the first Daniels limited run (late '12 to 2013 ,n-400) had some absolutely beautiful stag and bone versions.
This is truly a big user knife worthy of serious collecting.
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