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Knife cards for use as counter top sales displays, date back to around the turn of the twentieth century. Found in both Europe and the United States, these cards usually contained inexpensive or novelty knives for sale.
Following WWI, knife cards from various cutlery companies were seen on counters in every hardware and drug store across America. Enclosed are two examples...

The first card is from "Ideal" and offers a dozen folders with the king himself, Elvis on the handles, circa 1960s.

The second card is from "Colonial" and features six "Heavy Duty" Barlow models with a date of 1977.

Please post any cards that you might have.



 
Very nice! The Elvis knives can't be from the 60's though. They have his year of birth and death on them.
 
very cool! :thumbup: I don't have any but that's always a fun section to see in old knife catalogs. Rare to see them still intact!!
 
I don't have any myself, but your post did remind me of this, which I posted a while back in the "traditional knives in movies" thread. It's a knife card/display on the wall of the general store in the movie Tremors. It doesn't appear to be a particularly interesting knife card, but it is a knife card nonetheless. :)

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Nice cards you have there! Btb01- nice catch on seeing the knife card in that scene. Tremors is one of my favorite all time movies too:)
 
Cool herder!

I get a kick out of the cards aimed toward kids, Mickey Mouse, etc. you're never going to see that again.
 
Thanks all, and as Ernie1980 said, nice catch on spotting a knife card in that movie, btb01.
And as Supratentorial mentioned, they are neat to find in tact, and do show up at knife shows and on the internet on occasion.
Knife "trays" were also used as counter displays. Enclosed are two examples, Hibbard, Spencer, & Bartlett, from the 1927, and Simmons from 1942.



 
Herder really cool:cool: displays. This is not a display board by no means but Wurrwulf sent this Boker 493 still in the cardboard and plastic package to me for Christmas. I thought it was really cool I hope you don't mind me posting it.


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herder said:
Thanks all, and as Ernie1980 said, nice catch on spotting a knife card in that movie, btb01.
And as Supratentorial mentioned, they are neat to find in tact, and do show up at knife shows and on the internet on occasion.
Knife "trays" were also used as counter displays. Enclosed are two examples, Hibbard, Spencer, & Bartlett, from the 1927, and Simmons from 1942.


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Fantastic early stainless ad. Might be contentious but I like stainless knives, patina is nascent rust...:D rust is knife death...:eek:.No doubt early stainless was inferior in edge holding etc but it's amazing what residual prejudice there is to stainless steel even now. You get posters disdaining it or claiming it won't retain like good ole carbon...:rolleyes:just a matter of taste that's all. Would you like carbon dinner knives & forks?:barf:

Nice tip bolsters on that one too:thumbup:
 
Those are fantastic Herder, thanks for sharing them here :thumbup:
 
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