History Quiz Giveaway

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You must be a member of the Fans of Ka-Bar Knives Group to win. See my signature. It's easy and free to join.

First member of the group to respond in this thread with the correct answer gets a BK-14 second package (knife, sheath, and cordage).


Fill in the blank:


___________________ ==> Union Razor Company ==> Union Cutlery Company ==> KA-BAR Cutlery, Inc.
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I just want to add that you need to be 18 and that the knife has to be legal where you live.
US only on this one since the shipping is on my dime. :p
 
Done deal. mrn8, send me that address.

I've got four more of these to give away in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for contests!
 
Excellent...forum watching from work paid off. :thumbup:
 
Holy crap!! There's a fan group??

All this time i thought that's what I was doing over here on the subforum, being a fan.

Must join this..

P.S. Congrats on your win! :D
 
The proper answer is Brown Brothers, or Brown Brothers Razor Co. Tidioute Cutlery Co. is incorrect, they were not forerunners of Union Razor or Union Cut Co., Brown Brothers purchased the first Tidioute Cutlery Co, but they were the ones who became Union Razor, not Tidioute. Tidioute Cutlery Co. was re-formed after the Brown Brothers moved to Olean and had no relation to Union Razor or Cut Co.
 
April 29, 1897

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a group of 38 men form a Limited Partnership, known as Tidioute Cutlery Company, to manufacture and sell cutlery. The formation is now widely considered to be the beginnings of KA-BAR Knives, Inc.


1902

Mr. Wallace R. Brown purchases the assets of the Tidioute Cutlery Company, and applies to the Governor of Pennsylvania to form a corporation, the Union Razor Company (later changed to Union Cutlery Company in 1909), for the purpose of manufacturing and selling cutlery.


Brown Brothers Razor Co. Was a trademarked name registered by Union Razor Co. From my understanding after Tidioute Cutlery Company's assets were purchased by Wallace Brown. Tidioute was formed before Union Razor in 1897, then Reformed under Union Razor 1902.

Correction: Brown Brothers was probably a Company before the purchase of Tidioute then forming Union registering the name Brown Brothers under Union. Emerson and Wallace Brown were nephews of the Case brothers, and the name KA-BAR comes from an acronym for Case Brothers. It is debated that Marketing came up with the Kill'd a Bar story, but I digress.

Sources: http://www.kabarknives.com/history
http://www.taylors1000.com/manufacturers/manufacturers_all.htm#B
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/117231-Kabar-Numbering
 
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Brown Brothers Razor Co. was in Little Valley, N.Y. before 1900, the name wasn't just a brand used by Union Cut Co. and the Brown Bros. merely purchased the Tidioute firm as a new and larger factory for their operation which then became Union Cut. Therefore the Brown Bros. were the forerunner of Union, not Tidioute.
 
Regardless of the real actual right answer the winner was chosen based on the OP's knowledge at said point and time.

So, Guyon and MRN8 were right......even if they were technically wrong. Get over it ;)
 
Hey, I was just going by the Ka-Bar website and A.G. Russell's page. But what do they know? I'll ask my resident historian at Ka-Bar and if gunsil is right, or even close to right, I'll send him a knife too.
 
Is it pronounced "tiddy oot", "titty out" or what?
 
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