History of Cotton Sampler Blade?

Nice to see you here, Brad!! Where ya been hidin'??:)
 
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I have the RR mini one, I have since re-dyed it redish brown. I now live in a part of North Carolina where allot of cotton is grown, and in all the antique shops and pawnshops I've yet to run across an vintage one. I keep looking though :thumbsup:
 
I grew up in eastern NC and had three uncles who owned farms and grew tobacco, peanuts, and cotton. I worked in tobacco when I was in junior and senior high school (never worked cotton but worked around those that did) - I never saw a cotton knife until I became a knife collector and began frequenting these websites. I also hung around the hardware store looking at the guns and knives in those days in my spare time - don’t remember seeing a cotton knife either. OH
 
A few years ago I saw a box full of them for sale on the Bay, in a very plain iteration, clearly originally marketed in hardware stores in the South. I think Old Hickory or Ontario still might have some of these around from some seller, with plain slab wood handles just like their butcher knives.
 
For what it's worth Dexter russel still makes a very plain cotton sampler as part of their industrial line
 
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