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   Do we know anything about these?

Nice looking set Thorvan. What year was it produced?

  Don't know that's what I want to find out. Bought these at a pawn shop in Idaho.

Do you have by chance a less grainy photo o the blade etchings, tang stamps, and the card in the box?

From a friend on another knife site:

"My guess off the bat would be a bicentennial set from 1976. The tang stamp for that year was a Q76 on the tang."

I read 1992 somewhere yesterday when I was looking for info on this one.  I was hoping to find it in the Historical Documents that Queen is putting on thier site but neither 1992 nor 1976 are there yet.  They are doing a great job of finding all the info for us though

http://www.queencutlery.com/Advertisment_Material.html

Jan, thanks for your request on this.  Try  as I may and I have an enormous collection of Queen literature and I can find nothing on these knives and I can only go on memory.  

I remember when they came out and saw several sets mostly in the Pigeon Forge area.  Seems like all questions I get I cannot give a positive answer on because they are contract knives made for a customer and I think these were made to order and these sets were assembled or boxed by this customer.  I'm reluctant to mention names but I think one of the large retailers of knives had this done.  The tang stamp should tell the year of manufacture.  Wish I could be more help.  Fred

Thanks Fred, I appreciate the input!!

Thorvan, can we get a shot of the tang stamp?  I think I know who to ask next

OK, so we have seen the tangs http://iknifecollector.com/photo/queen-colors-of-freedom-001-2

Let me contact a couple of the folks that may have contracted it and see what we find out!

I've seen them individually on sales, but not a nice boxed set like this.   The 1976 bicentennial knife was a large barlow with a flag shield sealed on a wooden plaque  - you see them all the time on Ebay - about 15,000 produced. 

I am pretty confident these were not a catalog set from 1980 on, so I support Fred Fisher's view - SFO,  Big coke bottles were hot,  cooled off about mid-90s,  Please keep us posted if you learn more about them.

Thanks

Dan

I bought a set like this from Smokey Mountain Knife Works in 92 or 93 for a

Christmas present to myself.  I do not remember what I paid for them but I

do remember where they came from.

Sorry the old mind does not remember much more, but I think i have a copy of

the advertisement somewhere and if i can find it I will post it.

 

Rome

Rome,

Thank you very much!  Seeing that tang stamp photo and your purchase date all makes good sense. I'd very much like to see the ad if you can find it - that documentation will get saved and one more little mystery solved -- though Queen provides us all with uncounted opportunities to track down knives they have made.

Thanks,

Dan

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