The Electric Story - iKnife Collector2024-03-29T00:29:03Zhttps://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/the-electric-story?groupUrl=jbf-champlin-cutlery&commentId=3181080%3AComment%3A897751&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow about it! Anyone have an…tag:iknifecollector.com,2013-07-12:3181080:Comment:8977512013-07-12T22:47:57.781ZJan Carterhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/JanCarter
<p>How about it! Anyone have any papers or knives?</p>
<p>How about it! Anyone have any papers or knives?</p> With this understanding of th…tag:iknifecollector.com,2013-07-06:3181080:Comment:8902892013-07-06T17:37:12.716ZJan Carterhttps://iknifecollector.com/profile/JanCarter
<p>With this understanding of their US market, Christopher Friedmann and Charles Lauterjung could not have picked a better name than the trademark they selected.</p>
<p>“The Electric Cutlery Company” was certainly a name easy for the American people to remember and pronounce. Plus, the terms “electric” and “electricity” were no doubt very modern sounding buzzwords of that day and age that carried their own level of interest and implied quality.</p>
<p>In 1890 the company set up manufacturing…</p>
<p>With this understanding of their US market, Christopher Friedmann and Charles Lauterjung could not have picked a better name than the trademark they selected.</p>
<p>“The Electric Cutlery Company” was certainly a name easy for the American people to remember and pronounce. Plus, the terms “electric” and “electricity” were no doubt very modern sounding buzzwords of that day and age that carried their own level of interest and implied quality.</p>
<p>In 1890 the company set up manufacturing in earnest when they moved from New York City to Newark, New Jersey. The company letterhead of that period displays an impressive illustration of the factory along with the bold claim <strong><em>“The Best Equipped Cutlery Works in the World”</em>.<a href="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/j-b-f-champlin-and-electric-cutlery/electric-factory-2-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-845"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-845" title="electric factory 2" src="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/electric-factory-21.jpg" alt="" width="1440" height="960"/></a><a href="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/j-b-f-champlin-and-electric-cutlery/2-knives-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-846"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-846" title="2 knives" src="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2-knives1.jpg" alt="" width="1440" height="1116"/></a></strong></p>
<p>According to Goins, James E. Fuller (President of the Newark company) along with his brother Clifford (Treasurer) purchased the “New York Knife Company” of Walden, New York in 1903. They operated both firms until 1910 when the Newark operation was closed.</p>
<p>Electric knives marked “Walden” were produced in the New York Knife Company plant as a second line to their now famous “Hammer Brand” Knives. The Electric trademark was used until about 1920.</p>
<p>J.B.F. Champlin & Sons Cutlery, LLC is very pleased to announce the issue of a new knife bearing the Electric Cutlery brand and has chosen the historic and very capable Queen Cutlery Company of Titusville, PA to manufacture our next offering in the J.B.F. Champlin line of quality pocketknives.</p>
<p>This will be a “Plumbers Whittler” with a Sheepsfoot main blade, fashioned after an antique pattern made by the Cattaraugus factory in Little Valley, NY.</p>
<p>Here are 3 labels that we are considering for the box.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/j-b-f-champlin-and-electric-cutlery/electric-lable-v4_b-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-847"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-847" title="electric lable v4_b" src="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/electric-lable-v4_b1.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="360"/></a><a href="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/j-b-f-champlin-and-electric-cutlery/electric-lable-v4a-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-848"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-848" title="electric lable v4a" src="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/electric-lable-v4a1.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="360"/></a><a href="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/j-b-f-champlin-and-electric-cutlery/revised-electric-lable_v8-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-849"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-849" title="revised electric lable_v8" src="http://www.jbfchamplin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/revised-electric-lable_v81.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="360"/></a></p>