Please post old historical photo's of traditional cutlery that we all luv so much.

sunnyd

sunnyd

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Gents and Ladies,
We in the Traditional Fixed and Folding knives forum just love our history.. :thumbup:

I say that we all spare no expense posting all the great pictures you can find about the old vintage pocket cutlery we hold so near and dear to our collective hearts.. Lets honor the Men and Women that poured there lives into this career of building cutlery all over the world making history for us all.

The Marbles Arms Factory Employee's of 1917:
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Please meet Mr. Holden one of the primary cutlers that worked primarily at Schrade for something like 50 years. However, he also built many Keen Kutter runs as well and most likely many more in the USA. Prior to that he worked at Sheffield, England like his Father did before he came to the US :
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Ok you asked for it...:rolleyes: Here are a few I have picked up over time and put back into the files thanks to the effort of those who put them up in the past..:D

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that's quite the collection Sunburst. Where have you picked them up? Thanks for posting.

Mike
 
If you go to the link below, there are some pictures of the inside of the old Cattaraugus plant in Little Valley NY, the photos are from 05, the building is in the process of being renovated. Don't know of anymore progress since, also on the same link, if you got to the events page, at the bottom of the list, checkout the Derek Smith web site, Outside shots of the still existing factory building.

http://barrhonellison.tripod.com/

Rusty1
 
Sunburst,
You are amazing! You have an absolute wonderful treasure trove of historical photographs in your files. Thank you very kindly for that as it was thoroughly enjoyable to view. I have gone through your posts twice already and will go through them again shortly to make sure I did not miss anything..:)

Rusty1,
Thanks for the very cool link as well.
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The Ruana Knife Works custom shop located in Bonner, Montana. The photo was taken in 2004. This is where Rudy Ruana put out an amazing amount of custom blades by himself from 1938 on until 1964 at which point his son-in-law Victor Hangas joined him to assist and learn the business. Rudy retired in late 1983 at 80 years old at which point Victor took over the business, who by then was a master forging cutler in his own right.. The shops structure is as original and has not changed in all those years..
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The old man himself perhaps just a few years prior to retirement..
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You can also see a photograph of Mr. Ruana taken I believe in his late 50's in my avatar.
 
Great photo's, I love the historic side of knife collecting, it has always been very important to me..

I can take "no" credit on these great pictures I shared. I am more of a gatherer who comes behind and saves what he sees at different sites to have for history's sake..:)


Sunnyd, I have always liked your avatar and wondered about the history behind the picture, I really appreciate you taking the time to share the story with us..Thanks..

Sunburst
 
This is a fantastic idea for a post sunnyd. That is a great collection of knife history sunburst...Thanks. To accompany the grinder, here are artists renditions of forging and finishing the pocket knife blades. These engravings are from an 1884 Harper's magazine article on Sheffield.

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Sunburst your incredible, thanks so much. Keep em coming. Some one's got to make this a sticky. This are all awesome photos.
 
Sunburst, you are the man for those Mr. Moran shop photographs and all the other wonderful great stuff you keep adding here!.. Thanks again for these great pictures my friend!. And of coarse you are welcome for the R. H. Ruana photographs and information.. Please keep um coming.:thumbup:

Here is one of the more recent pic's of the Queen Cutlery(although if'n I am not in error this is the original) building...
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More photo's borrowed from here and there..
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As reported by a member much more knowledgeable in these things than myself is the inside of S&M Circa 1890's.
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Thanks Gents..

Sunnyd that picture is the Queen Cutlery factory today but actually it is the original Schatt & Morgan from the 1890's. If you look at the first picture I put up in the top left hand corner you will see the similarity.

Sunburst
 
sunburst said:
Thanks Gents..

Sunnyd that picture is the Queen Cutlery factory today but actually it is the original Schatt & Morgan from the 1890's. If you look at the first picture I put up in the top left hand corner you will see the similarity.

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OOOP'S my BAD!.:D Thanks for the correction and straight dope on that Sunburst!.:thumbup:

sunnyd
 
Here is a photo from Joseph Rodgers & Sons 1911 in honour of all employees with 50 or more years of service. As you can see from the list, some started working for the firm as early a 9 years old, most started in their early teens. The men in this photo were involved in the making of knives from 1861 or earlier. Also note a member of the Platts family (James).
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