Queen City Knives

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tim777us

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Hi. Has anyone ever bought one of these? I'm looking at this model: "Queen City Knives 89WB Canoe Mirror Fixed Blade Knife Winterbottom Handles." Comes with a decent looking leather sheath. The only reference to the steel I can find is "mirror finish stainless clip point blade."

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On one site, I read "440C." I would take that with a grain of salt. It is an inexpensive imported knife with the name "Queen" on it. The name "Queen" used to mean something.
 
Depends on if this is new stock or old.
Queen Cutlery was an American company. Now it is justr another brand name which has been used for selling imported knives.

Back in the 80's Queen's "Queen Steel" was 440C. Later knives might have been 420HC. I would guess that if the knife is new stock that the steel is 7CrMoV, which is roughly equivalent to 440A.
 
It is new stock. A few sites have them. From one of them is "Origin China". That same site says "Blade Material 440C".
 
knarfeng. Thanks for posting the older Queen's were 440C. I was just examining my Queen marked "The Mountain Man, Queen Steel 1440'. I thought I remember it was 440C but found a page on All About Pocket Knives saying it was carbon steel. I got it somewhere around 1977, and used it to cut away the "Donut Ring" on our Rubber Duck drops, that was in salt water and never had any problem with rust, so the carbon steel did not ring true to me. John
 
The Queen knives that are made in the USA by Bear and Son are marked “Queen USA”. If there’s no USA in the rang stamp, then it’s probably Chinese.
 
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