Gen. Custer's Favorite

William H. Maher and Emil Grosh started the Maher & Grosh Wholesale Cutlery Co. in 1877 with a goal to sell high quality US manufactured cutlery globally. The original business dissolved in 1988, but the brand has since been resurrected.
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I received this Gen. Custer's Favorite coke bottle a couple days ago.
When I opened it I was excited. What a great looking knife. The packaging was really cool (old school box, embroidered carry bag, etc.)
Beautiful heavy duty coke bottle.
Now the bad....extremely dull. I could run my finger across the edge without fear of being cut. The bevel was so bad I had to reprofile it. It took quite awhile to finally get a good edge. Now that it's sharp I love it. Gonna put it in a belt sheath and put this beauty to work.
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That’s a beautiful knife.
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Thanks.
I should have put in my original post that this is a new M&G made by GEC in case someone doesn't know.
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Russell thankfully corrected me. This knife was made by Queen.
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The coke bottle range of M&G are made by Queen Cutlery David. Only their newer models are made by GEC. I have one of these coke bottles as well, nice large knife.

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Thanks Russell. I obviously didn't know that.
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It does happen, when most knife companies were making knives for each other it became hard sometimes to identify which company actually made the knives. I have been been perplexed sometimes when trying to find out who actually put together a certain knife. :)

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I've got one that I like quite a bit.
I like to think of them as hunters.
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Rusty 1, thanks for the info.
FRJ, your Custer has two blades and a bail, mine just one. So is yours an older Queen or a newer GEC pattern?
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Quick Steel wrote:Rusty 1, thanks for the info.
FRJ, your Custer has two blades and a bail, mine just one. So is yours an older Queen or a newer GEC pattern?

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Try to help where possible. The single blade hunters were made after the two blade models, they bone bone and Ebony and I think the single blade ones were just made in bone. All three were Queen made.

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I'm away from my knives right now. It's been awhile since I bought that knife. I didn't think of it as Queen made.
Maybe Roger (peanut740) can help us although I certainly honor Russells judgment. ::tu::
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Russell is correct.All the folding hunters were made by Queen.The 2 blade one's came in Ebony and bone and had bails,and the single blade were only in bone and no bails.All the others are GEC made.
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Thank you for answering Roger.

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Thank you, Roger and thank you Russell. ::tu::
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These Queen made Maher & Grosh "Custer's Favorite" is really nice. I Bought some old Bokers and S&M Knives at a better price. When I tride to buy one , they were gone. I just emailed Maher & Grosh . I think Maher & Grosh blew it with the #97 Allegheny knives. Mayer & Grosh should of made a new "Custer's Favorite" with the better GEC #97 Allegheny Coke Bottle knife.
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Those are all cool knives.
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