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     My Dad was up the factory once again a few weekends ago. These trips to Titusviille have really started to become his substitute for going to the pond to fish.Anyway as I have mentioned before we are slowly going through some of the areas of the factory that haven't been gone through for years. As many of you could except its pretty much like american pickers. I thought everyone would like to see these. 

    Below are pictures of the original draft designs for a very historical knife the Queen Toothpick Switchblade & Queen Kitchen Cutlery Store Display Design . If you look there are two different switchblade designs that were done different years. I'm just amazed these survived what do you think of them?


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I'm glad everyone enjoyed these. I will be bringing out more items out weekly so keep your eye out for more interesting things.

Thanks Ryan. I'll be looking forward to more!



Ryan Daniels said:

Jan
Tell Donnie that if we both work on Dad we might have a slim chance of talking him into it.


Jan Carter said:

Donnie wants to know when the toothpick can be built LOL

That is really neat stuff, and I would love to see that toothpick built. 

This is very cool. Kind of like finding buried treasure!

That was interesting. What a piece of history.

Thanks, I love knife history.

Sincerely .. thank you for posting the diagrams !!!
??? did the autos see production .. & if so .. under what stamping ???
Thanks again, Ryan.

First production run .. put an iKC stamp on the tang .. could be sold before made !!!

. unfortunately .

There still exists that "shipping across state lines" thingie :(

Ryan Daniels said:

Jan
Tell Donnie that if we both work on Dad we might have a slim chance of talking him into it.

Jan Carter said:

Donnie wants to know when the toothpick can be built LOL

You could put me down for one right now. Thanks for preserving the paper history of one of America's great knife companies. Paper detiriates so much faster than steel, we are all lucky it exist.
 
D ale said:

First production run .. put an iKC stamp on the tang .. could be sold before made !!!

. unfortunately .

There still exists that "shipping across state lines" thingie :(

Ryan Daniels said:

Jan
Tell Donnie that if we both work on Dad we might have a slim chance of talking him into it.

Jan Carter said:

Donnie wants to know when the toothpick can be built LOL

I am unsure, but I think this knife was sold as "the jet" - there is a listing for that name on a 1949 pricelist I have seen.

I have also heard that when the switchblade knife prohibition was passed Queen buried a bunch of parts for this knife in some concrete - I assume around the factory someplace.  It would be great if someone could add to the history of this bit of Queen's past.

Absolutely wonderful that you posted this, Ryan.  Thanks

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