Dates. We all love dates!

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Permalink Reply by Scott King on May 15, 2009 at 15:50

OK. I know you really like dates..you are just shy about it.

No one is a member of this group who isn't a little nerdy about history- cutlery history, particularly- and history a point in time, right? Time=Dates.

I'll go first. I have to go look it up. I know the event, just not the exact date off the top of my head. I'll be back :)

Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on July 27, 2009 at 21:03

That's easy!!
1896
"The Western Knife Company was a manufacturer of hunting knives which began operations in Boulder, Colorado in 1896"

Honorable Mention to 1834===>
"Another New Englander, John Russell, founded his Green River Works on March 1, 1834. After having made his fortune in the cotton industry, Russell, at age 37, turned his energies to the manufacturing of quality cutlery. He built his water powered factory on the banks of the Green River near Greenfield Massachusetts. His first products, chisels and axe heads, were made from fine English steel of the type normally reserved for tableware. As the Green River works expanded its line to include knives, the company continued to use only the finest materials"

Permalink Reply by Scott King on July 27, 2009 at 21:08

Oh yeah!
You know I didn't know Western started then....I thought it was after Platts sold out to W R Case around, what, 1905ish. Good stuff, Trent.

Permalink Reply by Roger Cunningham on July 28, 2009 at 9:28

Didn`t Harvey Platts leave WR Case around 1911 or 12 and go out west?

Permalink Reply by Trent Rock on July 28, 2009 at 17:15

You guys are right!!
That is what I get for cutting and pasting WIKIpedia.....
Knife World has a good article this month an the court battle between Olin and Western Cutlery over the use of the word WESTERN

Permalink Reply by Larry Vickery on February 22, 2011 at 19:44

7/30/2004 - closing of Schrade

2/28/2007 - closing of Camillus

 

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 22, 2011 at 20:20

!!!! ... 19 May 1903 ... !!!!

 

"Marble's Safety Folding Hunter" ... Patented by Milton H. Rowland, assigned to Webster L Marble and Frank Van Cleve.

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 22, 2011 at 20:26

Filing date:                       Jan 22, 1898
Issue date:                       May 24, 1898

Patent number:                       604624

 

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 22, 2011 at 20:48

 

!!!! ... 5 June 1900 ... !!!!

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 22, 2011 at 22:18

!!!! ... 22 Feb 1916 ... !!!!

 

 

Permalink Reply by Larry Vickery on February 22, 2011 at 22:23

March 8 1892 

http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/patents/000470605.pdf

Permalink Reply by D ale on February 23, 2011 at 1:37

George Schrade   

Born:  13 February 1860    

Deceased:  9 September 1940

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