am's name to at least 1899, although every knife resource I own dates them to circa 1910 and low to medium as to collector value. Current value for other Waltham Cut. Co.knives is about $30-60. This is unfortunately due to the fact that there is almost zero information available about this brand, so no one knows what they are looking at. (Too rare to be valuable?) I have never seen another like yours, but unfortunately again this may mean little. Your knife could be as early as mid 1800's, but 1899 is as early as I can prove,although the ad I will show you would seem to infer they were in business well before that. Alfred Field & Co. started in 1836 as a hardware importer and exporter of cutlery and other goods in Birmingham,England. They later opened a satellite office in NYC, then in Sheffield & Liverpool, England and Solingen, Germany later in the 1800's. In the USA they were the SOLE agent for such old and revered brands as Joseph Rodgers & Sons and Joseph Elliot of Sheffield and C. Freidr. Ern of Solingen, Germany.They imported knives from France, too. They also carried a complete line of knives made in the USA under the A. Field & Co. name, supposedly made by Schrade and Queen. In short, I have no doubt that your knife is quite old and well made, but it took me several hours to collect these bits and pieces, which even the knife collector guides don't reveal.Therein lies the problem as to value. Here is an old ad from March 1899 for Alfred Field & Co. At the bottom of the ad they are listed as proprietors (owners) of Waltham Cutlery Co. or their trademark. This and other similar ads was the only connection I could find between Waltham Cut. Co. and Alfred Field & Co.
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t Imoerial hatchet knives, etc
Industry news is good too
I'm not a huge fan of the tactical knives
I'd rather see articles on Schrade or Camillus
I also like member submitted stories like==>"How did you get into collecting?"
or
"I found my Granpa's knives in the attic"
An auction.exchange/sale section would be nice too
Kinda like Bruce Voyles does every couple months
I'd also like to see a section called==>
"The Business and Economics of Knife Collecting" ;)
Knife reviews get to be kinda vague
"It took 10 chops to cut this pice of hemp rope"
And there is the whole issue of knife magazines NEVER having bad reviews
Have a dislaimer saying you don't accept manufacturs ad fees or something like that?
Jacknife over on Bladeforums writes pretty good knife stories
Maybe the guy who wrote the Case XX book recently?
Or PA Knife Guy?
A custom knife showcase would be cool too
And don't forget us ax/hatchet lovers!!
We get no respect sometimes :(
You going bigtime Scott?
How much per month?
I'd pay, say, maybe, $4.99 amonth for an online magazine??
Throw in a free tshirt or book and I might pay more....;)…
omprehensive, most up-to-date pricing information online. Forums like iKnife Collector (of course), All About Pocket Knives, or any of the other forums, should have some knives for sale, but even better they have people you could ask about specific knives, especially with photos included. There's Amazon & other retailer sites for knives currently in production, and eBay to get an idea of what your knife or something similar will go for -- especially helpful with knives that are out of production.
With the decentralization of information provided by the internet, it makes the process of valuation of knives (or any collectible) more work. But it also gives you more options, and access to markets that didn't exist before (in some cases the access didn't exist, in others, the market didn't exist).
But when it comes to authoritative sources, any guide by Bernard Levine is the most reliable place to start.
Still, I'd recommend starting with a Google search of the term "knife values" for general information. But while you're there, maybe try entering the specific knife brand ad model into Google, & the term "value", might give you some useful information (or not -- but worth a try).…
es up and and grind the shards to the shape he desired. Some of his first knives he made, used handle kits, he ordered from an ad in Popular Mechanics magazine in the 1950's. He used a lead mold for the guards , which was part of the kit and his own saw blades. The two small paring knives and the well worn kitchen knife, were my grandmother's ,than my Mom's and now mine. He made me the deer bone handled knife from the largest whitetail buck , I had harvested at the time. The large knife in the center photo was his last knife, he made, before he passed on a few years ago. His knives can be found at yard sales & flea markets in Haywood, Fayette, and Lauderdale counties.…
ds to make some of their combat knives. If the knife matches the sheath it is pretty valuable. Even the sheath alone is probably worth many times what you paid for it.On a side note, here is a comment from Bernard Levine I found about Giles Wetherhill .
"Custom Knife" is an unfortunate misnomer that just won't go away. The term was coined by Giles Wetherill in the 1930s. He sold "custom" knives to rich sportsmen by taking their measurements -- in imitation of the way a custom shotgun is fitted. He then proceeded to make them the exact same knife he made for everybody else, and charge them 10x the price of the best factory knife of the time.Bill Scagel made fun of Wetherill's racket, probably ticked off that he hadn't thought of it himself.
Here is an ad from 1945 for Knife-Crafters-
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Added by John McCain at 15:12 on February 12, 2016
e knives.only a few of the many as i am addicted very much to the metal handled knife!!i have been collecting metal handle knives since i started collecting.i just have always loved them. some of my favorite ar also D.PERES knives!..ill see if i can put a goup shot of some of them. remember some of the fightn rooster knives in these picks have very little markings to let you know they are roosters. ope you like em as much as me!.. i love the one with the CUTLER on the blde with all histools and so forth!.plus the DELCO battery knife is one of only a very few AD knives that rooster did.
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Boy was I stoked..I used to collect knives in earnest but quit after a home robbery in '95'...but I knew what these were and could not pass them up...One is rare and valuable..I think..a Remington Bullet model # 1253....the rest are neat but common old factory knives...I do not have a complete list of brands or a description of each..yet...but you can e-mail me @ mj111haines@gmail.com if interested..Steve Hanner said he would send me a link to a pricing guide for old knives...'till I can see that I am open to offers...There are twelve total ...I am guessing at this point the bullet is worth several hundred...but the others only about $15 each...??? send me an offer for all...I need to pay bills ... Mike Haines WA.
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