One Knife; Two Different Manufacturers Trade Marks Equal One "Error Knife"???

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Greetings To All,

Since I did not see an existing thread for my situation, here goes….I am a new BladesForum member and welcome one and all for any/all opinion/suggestion/direction.

I am searching for a logical reason for the end result of having the trademarks from two different manufacturers put onto one pen/pocket knife. Without a convincing straightforward answer for this strange end result, does the overall answer come out as……a curious manufacturer’s error?

I recognize that this forum has some restrictions on pictures so I have provided a FLICKER URL to allow viewing of the knife in question. The pictures show the “NEST” Trademark and stamping of the Southern & Richardson Cutlery Company (Sheffield, England) for two of its blades and the *XL Symbol And the George Wostenholm (Sheffield, England) stamping on the other two opposite blades.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137540868@N03/albums/72157663362215095

Is it possible that this knife might have been made with the leftover blades of a previous manufacturing run that being the S&R or the GW.

Thanks in advance.
Lake Lure Guy
 
Welcome to Traditionals :thumbup: You can post pics here by uploading them to an image hosting account, and posting the code here. It's certainly not uncommon to find Sheffield knives with different tang stamps like this. It's because of the cutlery system primarily used in the town, whereby most knives were actually put-together by self-employed jobbing cutlers (Little Mesters), and most worked for more than one firm (also a lot of Sheffield firms bought up the marks of other companies which had failed in the past). At some point, a cutler made a knife up to sell for himself out of his left over parts, or to give away or use. If the parts match, it should be OK. How is the knife apart from the mix-matched tang stamps?
 
Greetings To All,

Hope I do not offend anyone in going for this ride…..since I have not found an existing thread for my situation,,,,until now,,,,so here goes….I am a new BladesForum member and welcome one and all for any/all opinion/suggestion/direction.

I am searching for a logical reason for the end result of having the trademarks from two different manufacturers put onto one pen knife. Without a convincing straightforward answer for this strange end result, does the overall answer come out as……a curious manufacturer’s error?

As a new non-paying member, I am restricted from attaching pictures to this thread, but have created a FLICKR folder with pictures of the pen/pocket knife which show the “NEST” Trademark and stamping of the Southern & Richardson Cutlery Company (Sheffield, England) for two of its blades and the *XL Symbol And the George Wostenholm (Sheffield, England) stamping on the other two opposite blades.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137540868@N03/albums/72157663362215095

Is it possible that this knife might have been made with the leftover blades of a previous manufacturing run that being the S&R or the GW.

Thanks in advance.
Lake Lure Guy
 
LakeLureGuy said:
Greetings To All,

Hope I do not offend anyone in going for this ride…..since I have not found an existing thread for my situation,,,,until now,,,,so here goes….I am a new BladesForum member and welcome one and all for any/all opinion/suggestion/direction.

I am searching for a logical reason for the end result of having the trademarks from two different manufacturers put onto one pen knife. Without a convincing straightforward answer for this strange end result, does the overall answer come out as……a curious manufacturer’s error?

As a new non-paying member, I am restricted from attaching pictures to this thread, but have created a FLICKR folder with pictures of the pen/pocket knife which show the “NEST” Trademark and stamping of the Southern & Richardson Cutlery Company (Sheffield, England) for two of its blades and the *XL Symbol And the George Wostenholm (Sheffield, England) stamping on the other two opposite blades.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137540868@N03/albums/72157663362215095

Is it possible that this knife might have been made with the leftover blades of a previous manufacturing run that being the S&R or the GW.

Thanks in advance.
Lake Lure Guy
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This topic is unrelated and old. It's probably best just to use the original thread that you started.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...s-Trade-Marks-Equal-One-quot-Error-Knife-quot

You might ask a moderator to merge this inquiry with the topic that you had previously started. You might also ask for the topic to be moved to Bernard Levine's ID forum.

Jack is very familiar with Sheffield cutlery and gave a good answer to your question. Another possibility is that it's a parts knife. A prior owner may have repaired the knife and replaced blades. You would need to study the knife closely to determine if one or more of the blades are replacements. Posting more photos taken in natural light without a flash and using the macro function (flower icon) on your camera would be helpful. But sometimes it can be difficult to tell without examining the knife in hand. Take photos showing the well with the blades open and closed. And take photos of the springs with the blades open and closed.
 
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Someone with more knowledge will have to provide more detail, but I know that some Queen/S&M and Canal Street Cutlery tang stamps have been put into the same multi blade knife. Not sure if Canal Street assembled using Queen parts or what. I believe I heard that Canal Street used Queen parts to assemble their gunstocks, but I could be wrong.
 
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