American Cutler - Some adds from 1922

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VESPASIAN

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Hi - I've just recently developed a nasty bug for vintage pocket knives after cleaning up an old Imperial I got at the junk store for $4... Not a great knife but it reminded me of all the knives my dad had in the 60's and how really cool I thought they all were. So now I have similar feelings like that kid again but I cannot seem to stop buying... I may need some help overcoming this new addictive behavior. Can someone advise me as to how to STOP?

Anyway, this is a great forum, my thanks to all that make it possible - I thought some of you may enjoy seeing these 91 year old adds...

Cheers, Ed

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Ed, Thanks for posting the vintage advertisements - very nice. Welcome to the Traditional forum at Blade - I think you found the right place for your interests. How to stop? When you find out let us all know! OH
 
Fascinating, I love these old ads! You can so plainly see the patterns, blades and designs we love today, still as useful and relevant now as they were 100 yrs ago. Thanks for sharing!
 
Thanks guys - The American Cutler was a trade mag for the industry and adobe files of some of them can be downloaded via google books.

Cheers, Ed

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Cool, thanks for sharing :) They say one learns something new every day... Well, one of those ads above mentions Schrade having had another factory (besides their Walden NY location at the time) in Middletown NY. I moved to Middletown at age 11, having moved from Warwick NY. I also continued to live a good part of my adult life in Middletown NY, and never knew Schrade had ever once had a knife factory there... so again, thanks :)
 
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Jack Black said:
There's actually a sticky for old ads, which means they stay around. It's at the top of the page at http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/755317-Vintage-Knife-Catalogs-amp-Ads-(Images-Only)

Jack
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Right! They "stay around," but I have to bite my tongue every time I browse that most excellent resource due to the injunction therein:
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All discussion should take place in separately opened threads within the forum so as to maintain continuity and flow. (Off-topic posts will be removed.)
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;)

Time for me to queue up some threads for some of the pages that have caught my attention; there's so much to view and discuss.

Nice one, Vespasian. :thumbup:

~ P.
 
VESPASIAN said:
Was it still "Quick as a Wink"?
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Yeah! :D I'd never seen anything like it before. I slightly know the owner of the shop (in the English town of York), but he doesn't get many pocket knives in. He showed it to me, but didn't try to sell it me, I got the impression it was going to be expensive (I also think it may be illegal to sell or own here). I was only telling another member here about it on Friday :)
 
PocketKnifeJimmy said:
Cool, thanks for sharing :) They say one learns something new every day... Well, one of those ads above mentions Schrade having had another factory (besides their Walden NY location at the time) in Middletown NY. I moved to Middletown at age 11, having moved from Warwick NY. I also continued to live a good part of my adult life in Middletown NY, and never knew Schrade had ever once had a knife factory there... so again, thanks :)
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Funny... I'm just north of Providence that was home to a couple companies like Imperial. In the office the other day I happened to show a co-worker a pocket knife and he says : "Oh an Imperial!" , so I said, "ahhh you know knives 'eh?" - He replied no, but went on to tell me how his grandfather had worked there for decades and had passed along a similar Imperial.

Cheers, Ed
 
Jack Black said:
Yeah! :D I'd never seen anything like it before. I slightly know the owner of the shop (in the English town of York), but he doesn't get many pocket knives in. He showed it to me, but didn't try to sell it me, I got the impression it was going to be expensive (I also think it may be illegal to sell or own here). I was only telling another member here about it on Friday :)
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Yeah, some states in the US have laws against the sale or carry also... Fixed blade knives open much faster though and they are ok.
 
Jack Black said:
Yeah! :D I'd never seen anything like it before. I slightly know the owner of the shop (in the English town of York), but he doesn't get many pocket knives in. He showed it to me, but didn't try to sell it me, I got the impression it was going to be expensive (I also think it may be illegal to sell or own here). I was only telling another member here about it on Friday :)
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Alas, his only real options with it are to keep it for himself or hand it in to the police, as the only legal way to get automatics here is to inherit them (as far as I'm aware...). A friend of mine's father has an antique stiletto that will almost certainly never leave the drawer it's sitting in, even though it's a nice curio (although not so practical!).
 
VESPASIAN said:
Yeah, some states in the US have laws against the sale or carry also... Fixed blade knives open much faster though and they are ok.
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Yes, because they've been illegal so long here, they were never really been made here so far as I know. Wheras at least one of the Sheffield cutlers still makes push daggers (which have been illegal here since the late 1980's) for export. While the Flylock is quite a dainty thing, and very obviously not designed as a weapon, I think it would still be considered illegal.

Phreekedelic said:
Alas, his only real options with it are to keep it for himself or hand it in to the police, as the only legal way to get automatics here is to inherit them (as far as I'm aware...). A friend of mine's father has an antique stiletto that will almost certainly never leave the drawer it's sitting in, even though it's a nice curio (although not so practical!).
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The same dealer has a wall full of sword canes, but he told me his main customer is a judge. Perhaps the judge is having the automatic too!
 
Jack Black said:
The same dealer has a wall full of sword canes, but he told me his main customer is a judge. Perhaps the judge is having the automatic too!
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Not wanting to go too far off-topic, but apparently antique swordsticks are exempt. Go Mr. Judge and finding the right collector's loophole, I say!
 
Cool ads! Good luck with your addiction. I quit smoking 8 years ago but this would be harder to "kick".
 
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