Old Pocket Knife Boxes

[waynorth]

Real nice Remington and box, herder! It's nice to see them together - almost like being in the Hardware store!!

Here's an Ulster, where you got to take the box home!!

The glare has blurred a perfect etch - sigh . . . . .

 

[galvanic1882]

Great boxes!! Here are some of mine

 

[quaboag]

Is that a spring loaded box? Or just embellishment?

 

[waynorth]

Very nice boxes, Galvanic!! Beautiful condition!!

quabog, the spring was there to hold an example of the knives in the box for easy reference, and for display.

 

[galvanic1882]

Thanks Charlie, these 3 are really neat. The JBF Champlin box and the Cattaraugus box are old and we used them to design the JBF box for our knives made by GEC years back.

Next is the Electric spring box with a knife, thanks Charlie for explaining it.

 

[waynorth]

Nice boxes, Mike - and knife!!

 

[Peregrin]

galvanic1882 , Nice old boxes! The Canastota Knife Co. box sent me poking around the web. I lived in Canastota, NY for a few years after I was discharged from the Air Force in the mid '70s. Canastota was one of many towns that prospered because of its location on the Old Erie Canal.
The following is from the Town of Lenox Early Industries records.

Canastota Knife Co. /knives, cutlery / 1874-1895

Canastota knives sold nationwide, about 600 sytles manufactured including cigar cutters & knives for removing stones from horses' hooves. (Canastota)

 

[waynorth]

That Canastota is an OLD box!!
Thanks for showing us the box, Mike, and for the info, Gary!!

 

[ea42]

Charlie and Mike, those are some amazing boxes! What a window into the past!

Eric

 

[Emspop]

Such a great thread with such wonderful history. Thank you all for sharing those treasures with us.

Clay

 

[galvanic1882]

Here is another Canastota Knife Co box and item

 

[waynorth]

It's so nice to have an item that fits the box!! Very cool Mike!!
I guess that makes the nut pick pre-1895???

 

[galvanic1882]

I'm not sure Charlie, it's not marked but came in the box when i got it.

 

[Rookie82]

waynorth can we revive this one again? I'd like to see any new additions that anyone has. Make sure we can see the whole boxtop, I love this old advertising.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for the "re-awakening" Rookie82 !!
I have little to add, but here is a plain Remington red box, with the original information/wrapper for this nice BSA knife!! It's a stretch, but cool!!

 

[black mamba]

Neat Robeson fixed blade box from around 1960.

 

[joeradza]

A box for a Boy Scout Chow Kit by Geo. Schrade. The most interesting thing to me is the price sticker in the bottom right. $2.00 at J.C. Penney.

 

[Gonzalo]

Nice thread. A small contribution, not very old though.

 

[waynorth]

These came from a barn in New Zealand!!
Half a dozen Ettricks each, in original boxes!! "Stag", vs Genuine Stag, but nice!!

 

[galvanic1882]

Here's one I got awhile ago.