Rare Queen City or not?

epetrillo

epetrillo

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I am kind of new to traditional knives so I am looking for some help. I just bought this at a "popular auction" site. Ad identified it as a "Longhorn Moose" pattern and claimed it was rare. I have been unable to locate another just like it online. I don't really care much one way or another if it is rare but would like to know something about it if anyone knows. Looks similar to a Queen City Muskrat I saw but the bolsters are different. Haven't been able to locate any reference to a Longhorn Moose anywhere. Both blades are stamped "Queen City" on the tang but no other stamping or etching on the blades at all.
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It's a "moose" pattern but I dunno if Queen called them "longhorn moose". The seller (or another prior owner) seems to post on another forum since this knife appears to be the exact knife that you bought. It says 1 of 50 in his post.

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I've seen this line of knives but for the life of me cannot remember the specifics.

Around 2005 and 2006 they did a line of SFOs that were genuine stag and genuine red stag (which was sometimes 2nd cut) with the Queen City tang stamp, D2 blade steel, a federal style shield, and the 'genuine stag/red stag' blade etch. I ~think~ this was one of the SFO's that came a year or two after than but am anything but sure. The only reason I bring this up is that I have some of those stag knives from what I think is the previous line and the numbers varied from pattern to pattern within the line. The trapper had so many made and the muskrat had a different production total which was different from the whittler etc. One I think was 25 and one was 30 or 35... I never bothered to record the number and don't have a clue whether Queen ever published the true production totals or not.

There, I was no help whatsoever and only added to the confusion. Sorry about that. :)

Will
 
epetrillo......

Beautiful stag knife..and you'll probably won't find it listed anywhere as a "Longhorn Moose",the #52 Queen pattern was simply a Moose Pattern...the seller was simply taking liberties in his description...these were produced in the 90's ( and as DrPenguin noted again in the 2005/2006).....and I have no doubt in the information Jake found it being 1 of 50 so there's your rare part...
As it being similar to the Muskrat you'll notice a couple of differences.... the#49 and #52 frame is a 4 1/4" serpentine pattern used on Queen's Stockman, Half Stockman and Moose patterns.....the #66 frame is the serpentine Muskrat Pattern at 4" and more slender
 
Ah, there we go. Thanks Boggs, I knew I had seen them but couldn't remember the details. I was wrong about the time period. Sorry about that.

Nice knife.

Will
 
I know you're talking about a Queen City knife but there is a precedent for the name "longhorn" as I believe the Case XX Classic line had a knife called "CASE XX CLASSIC TEXAS LONGHORN JACK 62075 KNIFE MOOSE". Possibly Queen used the Longhorn name too.

Bull Dog also used the name Longhorn on some of their knives. Here is a Toothpick with the blade etched Long Horn.

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Not my picture

By the way, the OP's knife is very nice. A + to any collection.
 
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Thanks for the info guys, I appreciate your help. I am looking forward to this knife arriving early next week. It will be my first Queen and whatever the exact year of manufacture or number made I will be proud to own it. BTW I was told the knife is unused, unsharpened and like new in the box.

Emilio
 
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