Quaker Oats Baseball Knife??

[wing40]

Posted this in the Camillus forum and Mountainwind believed it to be a 1935 Quaker Oats promotional knife. I saw a thread where Codger talked about the same knife. Well here's the pics, is it the one??

 

[Codger_64]

Well no. I mean yes. Sort of. You see, ....




The "Mascot Knife" was a premium for United Profit Sharing Coupons. It cost 160 coupons. Quaker Oats may well have been one of the products which enclosed a coupon. Wrigley's Gum was an early sponsor. The sticks were wrapped in the coupons.



Michael

 

[Codger_64]

You will also see these "Mascot" figural knives with major and minor league teams like this one which has the Fairmount tang. The "Home Run" text is also seen on Fairmounts.



Michael

 

[wing40]

Interesting I also received a Fairmount knife in the same batch the Camillus bat knife was in. Never heard of the Fairmount tang before, are they a spinoff of a larger company? It is a 2 blade jack with red and gold celluloid handles. The tang reads Fairmount Cutlery NY City.

 

[Codger_64]

Fairmount is another Camillus mark. 1930-1940 according to the late John Goins. NY City was where A. Kastor & Brothers was headquartered. The Kastors bought Sherwood's Camillus Knife Company in 1902 and used many marks for the knives produced there, eventually becoming Camillus Cutlery Co. They were still importers for quite a while and used Wadsworth, Morley, Germania, and other marks on those knives, as well as A. Kastor Bros.