Antique Pocket Knife- Bastian Bros. Rochester NY, National Life and Accident Insurance Award Knife
Bastian Bros. Co. Rochester, N.Y. Silver (German silver or plate-not sure of handle metal) 2 15/16” overall length, main blade 1 ⅞”, novelty/award knife, two blades handles embossed The National Life and Accident Insurance Company Incorporated Nashville, Tennessee, excellent handles (ornate and deeply cast) and blades, by prominent USA maker founded in 1895 in Rochester, New York. $125.00
Exceptionally nice award knife, seems quite vintage.
See Blade Forums post of T. Erdelyi on 11-23-2014 for an excellent history of the Bastian Bros. knives. Quoting from the Bastian Company website:
"Bastian Company was founded in 1895 and was incorporated as Bastian Brothers Company initially operating as a jewelry store.... Within a short period of time, the firm became known for its custom recognition and award products and underwent a rapid expansion. Soon after moving into a larger facility, Bastian expanded its sales and marketing efforts to eventually cover the entire United States and today has numerous customers located outside the United States.
Since 1895, Bastian Company has been recognized internationally for its quality, craftsmanship, and integrity in the production of emblematic jewelry, lapel pins, medallions, belt buckles, paperweights, key tags, convention badges, police-security-firemen badges and insignia, and automotive decorative emblems.
Bastian Company’s die cutters (tool makers) can reproduce a concept into an embossing die that will provide the clarity, sharpness and definition of detail you expect in the finished product. In each and every step of the very labor intensive die striking, enameling, polishing, finishing and plating procedures our employees build integrity and quality into every Bastian Company product."
SEE PICTURES FOR THE BEST DESCRIPTION.
Price includes shipping by USPS Mail to U.S. address (no international shipping) by First Class Package Service) with payment by PayPal (Goods and Services). To order, PM me and claim on this thread and furnish your PayPal info. First to pay wins the knife regardless of promises. No trades at this time. All sales are “as is” and final. Feel free to PM me with questions and for more images. Thanks.
Bastian Bros. Co. Rochester, N.Y. Silver (German silver or plate-not sure of handle metal) 2 15/16” overall length, main blade 1 ⅞”, novelty/award knife, two blades handles embossed The National Life and Accident Insurance Company Incorporated Nashville, Tennessee, excellent handles (ornate and deeply cast) and blades, by prominent USA maker founded in 1895 in Rochester, New York. $125.00
Exceptionally nice award knife, seems quite vintage.
See Blade Forums post of T. Erdelyi on 11-23-2014 for an excellent history of the Bastian Bros. knives. Quoting from the Bastian Company website:
"Bastian Company was founded in 1895 and was incorporated as Bastian Brothers Company initially operating as a jewelry store.... Within a short period of time, the firm became known for its custom recognition and award products and underwent a rapid expansion. Soon after moving into a larger facility, Bastian expanded its sales and marketing efforts to eventually cover the entire United States and today has numerous customers located outside the United States.
Since 1895, Bastian Company has been recognized internationally for its quality, craftsmanship, and integrity in the production of emblematic jewelry, lapel pins, medallions, belt buckles, paperweights, key tags, convention badges, police-security-firemen badges and insignia, and automotive decorative emblems.
Bastian Company’s die cutters (tool makers) can reproduce a concept into an embossing die that will provide the clarity, sharpness and definition of detail you expect in the finished product. In each and every step of the very labor intensive die striking, enameling, polishing, finishing and plating procedures our employees build integrity and quality into every Bastian Company product."
SEE PICTURES FOR THE BEST DESCRIPTION.
Price includes shipping by USPS Mail to U.S. address (no international shipping) by First Class Package Service) with payment by PayPal (Goods and Services). To order, PM me and claim on this thread and furnish your PayPal info. First to pay wins the knife regardless of promises. No trades at this time. All sales are “as is” and final. Feel free to PM me with questions and for more images. Thanks.