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Queens of the past

One of the things that I notice missing is photos and discussions on the older Queens.

I thought maybe I could start a discussion on them and show a few pictures of some of

the Queens that I have collected over the years.

But First I will explain why I decided to collect Queen.

My parents were brought up in the Tylertown, Mississippi area and moved to Vicksburg in the

mid 50's. Because family and friends still resided in Tylertown we would occasionally go for a short

visit.

One day before we left Tylertown to head home my father said he had to stop at the hardware

store for something. When re returned to the car my mother asked him what he had gotten and he

pulled out a brand new Queen Steel #9A stockman. When I saw that knife I thought that the

yellow/amber handles were the prettiest thing I had ever seen. I asked to look at it and was rewared

by them letting me hold the closed knife in my hands for just a minute with the cautionary warning "be

careful".

After that time I was a Queen fan, even though I wasn't but about 5 years old it didn't matter, I was

hooked for life. Over the years when my father stopped for his knife they didn't always have the #9A

in stock and he would have to settle for just the standard #9 with the fake winterbottom bone

handles, but he always bought Queen. The reason he had to wait and buy one in Tylertown was that

Vicksburghad no Queen dealer, in later years this changed.

So for the first of the Queens of the Past is a #9a

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Permalink Reply by Carl Bradshaw on March 4, 2014 at 21:31

1 more to show, I was at my grandfather's today and he showed me this one. It is a Queen 1986 canoe pattern, with handles hand jigged by Bob Cargill, and blade etching done by Adrian Harris (Colonel Coon). This is a prototype knife made for my hometown's bicentennial anniversary of it's founding, that my grandfather proposed to the town council. They liked the knife, but by the time they decided to order it, it was too late to get the knives made, so they had to go with a more simple design, metal handle lockback.

Pretty rare to have a Queen/Cargill/Colonel Coon knife!

Permalink Reply by Bill Fletcher on March 4, 2014 at 23:58

Now that puts the R in rare Carl. Truly a special knife!

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 7, 2014 at 22:16

Carl,

Thank you so much for sharing this one. Please Thank your grandfather also, what a rare opportunity to see something like that canoe

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 7, 2014 at 22:20

In the 20's, this shield was leased to a company. The knives had the Queen shield shown and a tang stamp that was for the Henry Sears Co. It is the only time that shield was used, to the best of my knowledge. Ken Daniels brought this one to me today and asked that I share it here in this discussion. What a beauty and another rare opportunity to hold and see a 20's unique shield in such excellent condition. By the way this IS a Queen Winterbottom, one of the ones that took on the color of time in a way unique to only a few bones

Permalink Reply by Carl Bradshaw on March 18, 2014 at 8:03

Wow Jan, I've never seen a Queen shield like that even in knife guides, that is awesome!

Here is another Robeson of my grandfather's, Tang says Robeson SureEdge Rochester. Is that an original Robeson tang stamp, or one that was Queen made?