Oldest continuously produced knife models?

[hornetguy]

I don't have any data, but I have heard that the sodbuster type knife might date back to the Romans? Although I don't know how that could happen. I do know that style has been around, all over the world, apparently, for quite some time...

 

[OnceBitten]

https://www.oldetownecutlery.com/2017/11/03/worlds-oldest-known-folding-knife/

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

According to this Boker is the oldest pocket knife maker. If this post is against the rules please let me know.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The Ka-bar USMC is about 80 years old.

They were actually out of production post Ww2 till the 70's or so, as I understand it Union cutlery / Ka-bar made so many during the war they had no need to produce any for the military. Other companies continued to produce MK2'S but it wasn't too they had Cutco produce Commemoratives that Ka-bar made examples returned to production.

 

[Hickory n steel]

What about the Marttiini finlander fillet knife ?
They've been making them and of course making them for Rapala for a long time.

 

[Prester John]

Isn’t the Buck 110 basically unchanged for 70 years?

The 110 is about 56 years old.

 

[afishhunter]

R redcanoe Is that Skean Dubh from your collection?
That one is much nicer than the ones I have to wear with my kilt.

 

[afishhunter]

Isn’t the Buck 110 basically unchanged for 70 years?

Closer to 60 years. The 110 Folding Hunter was introduced 1964.
Prior to that the 110 was a fixed blade; very similar to the current 103 Skinner.

There are knife patterns that have been in continuous production by the same manufacturer for much, much longer than a mere 60 years.
The Old Hickory and Dexter Russel butcher knives, for example.

My great-great (maternal) Grandma Potter had a (10 inch?) Old Hickory butcher knife, that she told me she got for a wedding present, in the 1880's.
She kept it in a sheath, under her apron. (I was 5 or 6 when she left.)

 

[redcanoe]

afishunter,yes it is from my collection.Difficult to photograph the stamp on the blade says J.Nowell and sons.Lucky find
at a local flea market.

 

[Pinemoon]

They were actually out of production post Ww2 till the 70's or so, as I understand it Union cutlery / Ka-bar made so many during the war they had no need to produce any for the military. Other companies continued to produce MK2'S but it wasn't too they had Cutco produce Commemoratives that Ka-bar made examples returned to production.

Interesting, thanks for the information.

 

[Will Power]

What about the Marttiini finlander fillet knife ?
They've been making them and of course making them for Rapala for a long time.

Company founded in Rovaniemi, Lapland 1928. Youngster

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

I'm still going with a Boker kitchen knife is probably the longest produced pattern. If what they said is true and the company logo was first registered in the 1600's all others mentioned are relatively new in the game,a few are downright infants

 

[leghog]

Mercator knife has been continuously made since 1867. Kaufman & Sohne, the original manufacturer, is still a division (since 1995) of Otto Messer.

 

[Just Tom.]

Mercator knife has been continuously made since 1867. Kaufman & Sohne, the original manufacturer, is still a division (since 1995) of Otto Messer.

Thanks. I did not know that info about the company, but starting this thread did finally make be break down and buy one: