Among the news I try to bring to all of you on anything knife related, I sometimes have to bring news I don't like.  But here it is

 Public Auction*Former Queen Cutlery

I am sorry to see that!

Thanks for the information  Jan.  Sad news. A lot of history.

Very sad indeed.

Very sad to see this.

Shame they are just breaking it up.  Creditors will get pennies on the dollar and any chance for new ownership or reorganization is gone.

Well I hope they did whatever was needed to come out of this whole.  Wish I could have been at the auction but then again maybe not

I have a Queen, Schatt & Morgan heritage knife, 1 of 20 that was recently given to me because the shield was missing, Could anyone steer me in the right direction to possibly acquiring a shield for this, it is the larger on about 1 5/16" long?

Thank you Ashley, I'm new to the site and trying to upload via my phone, I think it posted it, if not i will try from a computer tomorrow.

I just bought this 2017 Schatt & Morgan Grand Daddy Barlow single clip blade Premium grade curly spalted Maplewood "factory sample" 1 of 1 knife !!!!

Here is my A.M.K.C.A.  1995 Schatt & Morgan  swing guard lock-back Sambar Stag with "black bear" shield knife   #37 of 50  !

Sweet

I came across and old, abused and unwanted knife the other day.  After

a little cleaning what i had bought was a Queen City large Toothpick with

Winterbottom bone slabs.  It seems that in its other life the tip of the blade

was broken off and one of the liners is bent. I worked on the tip and gave it

a little curve but did not want to do to much to the blade.  Enclosed are a few

pictures.

I came across a knife the other day at an indoor flea market, it was a Queen

electricians knife.  The tip of the blade had been broken of when someone used

it for a screwdriver and it had a half moon broken off in the curve of the blade

where someone used it for something it wasn't meant to be used for. 

But as it was only $3 I had to bring it home.  I didn't take before a before picture

but I reshaped the tip of the blade so that it could still be used.

Rome,

I love that you rescued this knife.  You pay a little, spend some time making it all yours and it forever becomes a user you enjoy.  Glad the knife didn't end up thrown out and you did a great job on the blade!

Kenneth,

That one of one is a beauty but you had me with the swing guard.  A good swing guard is just a beautiful pattern to me and that one is a stunner!

Schatt & Morgan  Humpback Whittler lock-back  MADE IN NEW YORK 

Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you Andy but I do not have a shield for that knife. It’s been crazy the last month!

A favorite of mine.

I went to a gun show today and there was a man selling his collection.

I ended up buying 2 black bone Winchesters, 1 older Queen, 1 large Eye Brand

trapper, 2 NKCA stag handled knives one of which was a Klass Kissing Crane.

Seeing as this is the queen group I will only post a picture of the Queen.  Oh the

best part was I didn't pay more than $30 for any 1 knife.

Well went back to the gun show today and picked up 5 more knives.

1 was a 4 blade S&M Sow Belly

1 was a Buck 110 stag handled custom shop with sv30 blade.

1 was a Case stag Sharktooth

1 was a Gold Coast Chapter club 3 blade stockman Frank Buster Fighting Rooster

1 was a gold Coast Chapter club stag trapper Frank Buster Fighting Rooster

And how this is the Queen group here is the S&M

I will post the rest on the box of knives group

When I posted the first group i did not know that the NKCA 1981 was a Queen knife.

It is not marked with the manufacturer and I had to look it up.

Also I new but forgot that the black bone Winchesters were made by Queen under

contract.

I have so far only one this small knife. The name of Queen steel #15 has become a little inconsistent with the name of the company now, but the font is very similar, maybe it was in some specific years of production?

Queen had to use the name "Queen Steel" starting in the 50's because the term "Stainless Steel" was trademarked.  Your knife has no tang stamp, only blade etch, which would date it to 1961-1971 timeframe.

Carl, thank you very much! 

Here are a few pictures of some Queen Steel knives that don't see much collecting or talking about.

This one has seen to much dishwasher time.

The Winterbottom bone delrin has faded .

This slicer has real Winterbottom Bone.

I also came across a set of Marks brand scissors that were marketed by if

not made by Queen.  I have a brochure that shows the scissors in a Queen

display along with kitchen knives and pocket knives.

Rome,

That real winterbottom is a treat to see.  I also believe there was a time when Queen made scissors but I have never been able to verify it

Here is a poor scan of a Queen brochure that shows them selling

Marks brand scissors.  It is the only thing I have seen that shows this

and I do have a pair of Marks scissors somewhere.

Courtesy of Fred Fisher.
Those pictured are out of his personal collection.

From the collection of Fred Fisher.

Well now I can say I have seen Queen Cutlery scissors.  The only scissors

that I had ever known of were the Marks that were listed in the

brochure and I once saw a large display in an old Western Auto

that had a place for the scissors but they were not there.

Sometimes the wealth of knowledge on this site is amazing.

I guess now I will have to pay attention to the other types of

cutlery at the flea markets and places I go.

Thank you for posting these photos, they mean I learned something

new today and that is always good.

     I just realized that the first pocket knife that I ever saw was a amber

handled Queen and I still think they are one of the prettiest knives ever

made.  I guess that is the reason I have bought them for so long and will

continue to pick them up when the price is not unreasonable.

     In this area Queen Cutlery was usually sold by Western Auto Stores,

every once in a while you would run across a small hardware store that

sold them, but not often.

     I was always told that they were mostly a northern knife and that the

salesmen down in this area were few.  So this makes them hard to find

around here, especially the older ones.  And when you do find them most

of the time they were used hard.  But it hasn't stopped me from looking.

That's funny. Growing up here in PA, only 20 miles from the Queen factory, there was never a single hardware store or dealer that you could buy Queen knives from. The story was always that Case had the market cornered around here, so the bulk of Queen knives were shipped down south to the Gulf states for the majority of their sales, at least 1950's - 1980's era.

All I can say is that Queen Cutlery has always been hard to find.

Out of six hardware stores that used to be in town only 1 had a small

Queen display.  I found a large display about 4 ft tall by 5 ft wide in a 

Western Auto in a small delta town and bought a lot of knives from

there.  I found another Western Auto in another small delta town that sold

some queen but they said it had been years since they had seen a salesman.

I found a 10 knife display in a grocery store in Ms and a small 2x3 cabinet

in a Louisiana Western Auto.

Sometimes its like looking for chicken teeth.  They are supposed to be here

but where is here.

Dale,

Thank you.  I should have thought to ask Mr Fisher, he and Carls' grandfather are 2 of the best Queen (through the ages) resources I know of.  In both cases it is first hand knowledge.  I knew about the razor but had totally forgotten.  Now THAT would be a piece of history to find !

Big Chief counter display. Fred Sampson said this was the first counter display for the Big Chief. Courtesy of Fred Fisher collection.

Note the pencil sharpener by Queen Cutlery. Courtesy of Fred Fisher collection.

Courtesy of Fred Fisher collection.

When I was a young man, (now that's been a while!) our local hardware store had a small stock of Queen knives.  I bought them because they were not expensive and when I lost one I didn't feel too bad.  That lasted through college.  Then I realized that if I bought an expensive knife I kept track of it and didn't loose it.  Have only lost two knives since that moment.  I still have the Queen pocket knife I had in college and the first Queen sheath knife I owned.  I also bought all of the Queen pearl handled pocket knives our hardware store had at a discount because they weren't selling.  Wish I could find a deal like that today......   

The big Chief #45 had only four parts, blade, aluminum handle, backspring and pin. Could be put together in not much more than a minute!  Like very much the early counter display.  In my conversation with Fred Sampson, he indicated that the price on that display would have been $.99 - less than a buck for a very capable Daddy barlow - the perfect tacklebox knife. It was a major seller for many years!  (And it kept Queen from fooling around much with more traditional #71 Daddy barlow.  I understand it was dropped from the catalogs once Daniels took over due to a persistent problem with breaking backsprings- an ill-advised change in the tempering process before they ever took over.  

The trick is to find a nice new one with a bad spring and an old one with a used-up blade, push out the pin and replace parts.  You will feel like a cutler (sort of), but end up with a great working knife.

Fred Sampson also pointed out that casting those aluminum handles did require some skill - You had to have the aluminum at the right temp, the mold at the right temp, and use air pressure just right to get a complete handle with no bubbles or gaps.  So, as the company got into fancier knives, some of those early skills might have been weaker.  GREAT KNIFE. 

Out of practice, that $. 99 was in 1953.  The price did go up...

Lots of great information, pics, and memories. Thanks for sharing.

My only two Schatt & Morgan knives. 

I have a third on its way.

The top on is a File & Wire Series (ATS-34)

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The bottom is a Humpback Lockback Whittler. It's a Premier Series. This series was exclusive to Clarence Risner. I understand Queen struggled with the intricacies of this model. It's heritages stems from Remington's original version.

Courtesy of the collection of Fred Fisher.

Comment by Dan Lago  .. that $. 99 was in 1953.  The price did go up...