Can someone tell me about this Winchester?

Can't see your picture. Why look a gift horse in the mouth? Is it a high end knife? No. Will it suffice for most uses (no batoning, no throwing at oak trees, no using as a pry bar or screw driver) Yes. I don't know if you have a fixed blade or a folder, but I see prices all below $30 or so. Someone cared enough about you to give it to you. Appreciate the thought.
 
Sorry I updated the image link for the pic...

It's a fixed blade Winchester knife, about 4 inches. Obviously stainless, but I can't find a match online and would like to know more about it.
 
It's no doubt Chinese manufacture. It's probably not too bad. As far as I know, Winchester has no real history with knives, unlike Remington, which made its own for a while, then contracted them with Camillus and they're all pretty fine knives.

Winchester did contract or lend their name to a series of knives made by Queen in the 90s I believe that are pretty nice.
 
As Mark says, it is chinese. Having said that, every knife has a price where it is a value. Use it, rub it, love it!
 
I get the imported Winchesters as gifts almost every Christmas...for the price point, they are surprisingly good. I use them for various tasks and ofttimes they live at "point of use" so they are there when I need them...

I have no problems with them! :thumbup:
 
WInchester did indeed make knives, pretty well parallel in time with Remington, just post-WWI to just prior to WWII. In 1919 they bought Eagle Knife Company in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Napanoch Knife Company in Napanoch, New York. In 1922 they briefly merged with E.C. Simmons hardware (Winchester-Simmons Company). That association was shortly dissolved and Winchester exited the cutlery business when ramping up firearm production prior to our entry into WWII. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a German company put the name Winchester on low priced knives that had no association with the original company. This has made the company’s reputation diminish abruptly. Winchester later authorized manufacture of knives in the late ’80s by a company named Blue Grass Cutlery.
 
Codger_64, was Queen the only cutlery company to manufacture Winchester knives for Blue Grass Cutlery ?
 
deskil said:
Codger_64, was Queen the only cutlery company to manufacture Winchester knives for Blue Grass Cutlery ?
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I don't know who the modern manufacturers are of the Blue Grass knives. Their website does say they are made here, except for the fixed blade hunting and camping lines I think. I have an older Winchester branded Sharpfinger copy that was imported by Carolina Knife And Tool of Portland. The box says it was made in China.
 
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