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Queen knives what have you got,whats your thoughts.

there are several threads on this subject, this being the most interesting

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Thread 'Let's see your Queen/Schatt & Morgan Knives'

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I will get it rolling. 2009 Schatt Cotton Sampler and a Queen Canoe model #89.
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Invoice said:
Ah, Queens. Was a good solid knife company in its day. They made knives for Marbles and Northwoods I believe.
They were famous at least in my eyes for their Winterbottom bone hafted knives.
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I've always considered "Winterbottom" to be beautiful handle material!!Winterbottoms.jpg
The knife on the left is Red Winterbottom on a Case!! The rest are Queens, real and synthetic!!!!
 
ferider said:
A dozen Schatt & Morgan knives here (specifically Series 5-II Worm Groove Bone and ATS-34, made in the early 2000s), do they count?

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BTW, here is a nice PDF file mapping tang stamps to dates, if anyone is interested: https://queencutleryhistory.com/wp-..._Cutlery_History_Tang_Guide_V9_final-post.pdf
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Great picture of some of my favourite S&M's. 😍


yablanowitz said:
Queen started out as contractors, making knives for other companies before they even had a name, let alone a brand of their own. I don't recall ever seeing a Queen knife when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies even though they'd been making knives since before my dad was born. I need to get mine out for a new picture, I've added a few more since I snapped this shot.



Those are in numerical order by pattern number. Top row between the little equal end penknife and the teardrop jack are #9 stockman knives like yours. Well, mostly predecessors of yours.

As you can see, they made quite a variety of patterns.
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Game, Set and Match right there!!:cool:

A few of mine...........







 
Rookie82 said:
Not sure what area of the US you grew up in. Queen sold a huge majority of their knives to the Gulf states, especially southern farming communities. In order to get away from competing with Case, Schrade, Cattaraugus, Camillus. I live in northwest PA only 30 minutes from the factory, and never saw a Queen knife for sale in a hardware store around here my entire life. My grandfather worked at the Queen plant in the 70's and 80's, and said the company motto was "Build them up north, ship them down south".
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Central states, Oklahoma being the most southern. Mostly north of the Mason-Dixon line, so maybe that's why I never saw them until later in life.
 
Lots of great examples here! Unfortunately, Queen also sometimes had very poor QC. I sold off most of mine a few years ago, but kept a couple with some glaring issues. They're useable, but not the best examples.

This 4.25" gunstock is actually pretty nice, but both of the shields fell off almost instantly. Still haven't gotten around to epoxying them back in. The double shields are pretty unique.





This interior elk handled gunstock should not have left the factory. Looks good from far, but far from good.



The blade could have been significantly longer and the tip is heavily warped - you can sort of see the curve here.



The tang is horribly ground and the walk is anything but smooth.



Aside from that, at least the shield is pinned!
 
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