GEC: where do the different Pattern names come from?

Great Eastern Cutlery gives their Patterns names like

Mustang/ Stallion/ Saddle Trapper /Cotton Sampler /Ranch Hand... for the #74 Pattern

some names are more, some are less obvious and deductive.

lets use our collective knowledge, our porch knowledge to get together all what we know about the countless GEC Pattern names.


#68 White Owl named after a Cigar Brand

the #68 Pattern includes small knives (3.50'') with equal ends, straight design, no belly, no curves, no serpentine, not tapered from one end to the other.

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A few other cigars made the cut: 35 Churchill and 53 Cuban
 
Why/whence Conductor?
I can't find that pattern name in my knife books - I think it came from the fertile minds at GEC!!! Maybe inspired by the bail; a train conductor would have a few handy tools hanging from his/her belt!!
This pattern is traditionally a "swell center, pen" knife!! It's almost robust enough to be considered a "double-end Jack" knife!!A Conductor Bail 1.jpg
 
Grinling Whittler named after Grinling Gibbons, Britain’s most celebrated wood carver.

Ben Hogan named after the most infamous man in the Pennsylvania oil fields.

French Kate name after Kate LeCounte, Ben Hogan’s notorious one time partner.
 
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The #18 Beagle is a peanut knife. Snoopy from the "Peanuts" cartoon is a beagle.

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Grinling Whittler named after Grinling Gibbons, Britain’s most celebrated wood carver.

Ben Hogan named after the most infamous man in the Pennsylvania oil fields.

French Kate name after Kate LeCounte, Ben Hogan’s notorious one time partner.


I learned something. I always assumed it was named for Ben Hogan the Golfer
 
Grinling Whittler named after Grinling Gibbons, Britain’s most celebrated wood carver.

Ben Hogan named after the most infamous man in the Pennsylvania oil fields.

French Kate name after Kate LeCounte, Ben Hogan’s notorious one time partner.
Wow looked up some pics of Grinlings work, and that is seriously impressive. Well deserving of the name!
 
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