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Comment by Waggoner, Alan on March 12, 2014 at 12:49

I love the old pic of the Platts brothers crew on the wagon. I think I remember reading that pic was done in Andover, N.Y. and the wagon was in a fourth of July parade. If my memory serves me right I am posting a pic of a knife made by them in that very building ca. 1911. The Andover knives were mfg by them and the Eldred knives were contract (by Napanoch I think please correct me).

Comment by Jan Carter on February 16, 2014 at 21:08

Michael,

I wonder if there is a way to find out how many of those Utica's were made.  I know not many of them have seen the light of day recently

Comment by Michael A Losicco on October 22, 2013 at 8:17

Thanks Steve, here is a picture of the knife in an old Utica Catalog they call the handles Mahogany and ascribed on the back of the main blade is  Mahogany. First one I ever saw!!

Comment by Ken Spielvogel on October 13, 2013 at 6:59

Love that Pearl Michael

Comment by Michael A Losicco on October 13, 2013 at 6:08

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Comment by Michael A Losicco on October 13, 2013 at 6:07

Here are a few of my latest vintage knives. The 4 blade pearl Electric is marked on both sides of the tangs, I have never seen this before on and Electric Cutlery knife.

The Utica with the Tulip shield is from a collection that belonged to Camillus.

Comment by peter force on September 19, 2013 at 2:26

@ craig.. I AGREE 100%!... histry and knives go hand and hand with me... im nuts.. even simple trades or simple sales... i will ask if a small note can be included ,sighed and all... i tried keeping the paper with the knives and it just looked like a mess.so i keep it in cabinet.alphabetized!

Comment by peter force on September 19, 2013 at 2:23

@ivarsday ... if you wanna have fun.. try and collect all the names of every CAMILLUS HARDWARE CONTRACT knife... let alone the knives themselves..

IVARS... you do know that most companies had other companies make their knives for them ?... this is why so many odd stamps and why sometime you will have some c0mapnies have 2 stamps both the company that is selling it and still the company that made it. this is also about money. WHY/.. well if the company is asking for a knife to be built that is actually better then what camillus normally makes they might want it drawn up that the CAMILLUS name is not to be on the knife at all. brass might be used where steel was and things like that... but then take "lesser" brands... CAMILLUS would make knives for them and maybe they would carry the CAMCO stamp but maybe CAMILLUS also might not want the knife that is being sold related to their name when it brakes or the fake mop they used starts to shrink.. they dont want folks looking down and seeing CAMILLUS or even CAMCO{they want them to see whatever company sold it to them}... CAMCO ..ended up handling a lot of the "promo" knives and ad knives...but they varied in how thy were made and some camco is stronger then others.

i even have a few knives that are ad knives and some prize/give away knives that have the ad or the company stamped on one blade and CAMCO on the other. not ad knives with CAMCO on tang..but ad knives with both the company on main blade and CAMCO on secondary.

Featured Comment by Craig Henry on September 18, 2013 at 16:46

I love the history behind the knife companies! Maybe because I love history in general....and I wish I could go back to a simpler time.

Comment by Phil Ladwig on September 17, 2013 at 0:46

I have found that one of the best things of knife collecting is learning the history. Thanks for sharing this photos.

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