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Comment by Clint Thompson on January 14, 2014 at 21:36

Ball Park figure of your Colonial Auto in the condition as shown in the picture is:  $140.00 to $180.00 replacement.  Market value for sale would be about 20% less.

KnifeMaker Comment by Robert A. Paolantonio on January 14, 2014 at 19:36

Very nice gentlemen!!

These are the beautie's of days gone by..days of pocket knife production when every man and some women carried a pocket knife of some configuration....

These were also the days of "Celluloid" !!  We used to buy 4x6 sheets of this material and the wounderous thing about Celluloid was the colors!

Inexpensive, easy to work with BUT, the danger was there also...

Celluloid was extremely flammable and combustible!!! I can remember walking by the grinding room and secondary operation room and see buuckets of water very close to the wheel operater, and later found out for myself....

Even when drilling pin on or center rivet holes it would smoke; and sometimes ignite !!!  Dangerous stuff and I guess that's why they outlawed it years ago....

Legal storage even 50 years ago was closely monitored,,

Let me find this pic of some old Cell., these go back to the 30's...

Comment by Jan Carter on January 14, 2014 at 19:10

Very NICE!

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on January 14, 2014 at 19:08

Wow, cool JJ.

Comment by George K. Groot on January 14, 2014 at 17:07

 Very nice knife. Still don't have one in my collection.

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on January 14, 2014 at 16:41

I am happy to own a Colonial but sad by the story. I have always said it's not how fast you open a knife, it's what you do with it once it's open. I know now that I made a good deal because I am happy with the knife. No matter the $$$, although a ball park value would be nice, so I can judge other knives like this that I may want to buy.

KnifeMaker Comment by Robert A. Paolantonio on January 14, 2014 at 15:44

Yes sir Robert, it's one of ours for sure!! Colonial made 50 or 60 different styles of push-button's in the 40's! A multitude of sizes and shapes and colored Celluloid..

Most of them were made with a slide button and slotted tang blade design...

When they passed the "switch-blade" law back in the 50's, the Government witnessed the destruction of all tools, parts, and knives that we had!!  They are actually burried on the old Colonial property! Very few of us alive know exactly where they are burried to this day!! I'll give you a hint...one of these structures...

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on January 14, 2014 at 15:30

This is some pictures of my "Shur-Snap" Colonial Knife. I hope I made a good deal, it looks great to me. I can see now why people collect these. I may be hooked.....lol

In Memoriam Comment by Robert Burris on January 13, 2014 at 11:28

Wow, that's a bunch. I have just bought the knife, I took a chance. I think I made a good deal, just not sure. I'll post pictures when I get it. It appears to be in good shape with a purple handle. It's my first of this type, so I have little knowledge about them.

KnifeMaker Comment by Robert A. Paolantonio on January 9, 2014 at 12:10

Hello Bob; Robert P. here, representing the "original" Colonial Knife Company and factory. I'd like to see a pic of that "Shur-Snap" Colonial!!  We introduced the Shur-Snap logo in 1948! A picture paints a thousand words...so a pic would be perfect..

Here are some of my push-buttons..

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