Show off your Winchester Knives

Winchester entered the knife market as a manufacturer in 1919 by acquiring two existing knife companies; Eagle Knife Co. of Connecticut & Napanoch Knife Co. of New York. Winchester stepped away from the market in 1942 to focus on war related manufactured products, but re-entered in the late 1980s by licensing its name to Blue Grass Cutlery. Blue Grass had high quality knives made by Queen Cutlery that featured the Winchester brand name for a handful of years until the license arrangement ran its course. Winchester eventually started licensing to other companies & now you will find the brand name used by several knife manufacturers by way of license agreements.
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2nd tat ::super_happy:: ::tu:: .
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LB 220 SS '95 (red box)
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Recently acquired 1920’s
Not mint but pretty!!
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Nice couple of Cokebottle knives. ::tu:: ::tu:: Do you know if the difference in the jigging pattern equates to a difference in age? For example, I wonder if the knife with longer groove-like jigging might be newer. My basis for that observation is from a couple of Remington knives I have where the more Rogers-like jigging is on an earlier knife than groove-like jigging.
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Shawn nice pair of 1920 Winchesters. The top knifes bone is more typical of what I see. Both nice.

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Those are dang gorgeous!!! ::tu:: ::tu::

*I had to tone down my real post so it was family friendly. ::oh_my:: ::drool:: ::ds::
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Beautiful swell center hunters. ::tu::
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RalphAlsip wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2019 3:25 am Nice couple of Cokebottle knives. ::tu:: ::tu:: Do you know if the difference in the jigging pattern equates to a difference in age? For example, I wonder if the knife with longer groove-like jigging might be newer. My basis for that observation is from a couple of Remington knives I have where the more Rogers-like jigging is on an earlier knife than groove-like jigging.
Jerry, I wondered the same thing! I’m sure it is related to age but hard to prove. Because they were different I had to keep both.

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Here is the bone on my 2907 if you want to compare bone.
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^^^^^
:shock: :o ::drool::
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Jacknifeben wrote: Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:48 pm Here is the bone on my 2907 if you want to compare bone.
Would that and the bone on the bottom folding Hunter be considered Banana bone jigging?
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The jigging is similar to Rogers jigging pattern. I’m not familiar with Banana bone jigging. Seems a lot of companies pre 1940 had similar jigging in their bone knives.

Maybe Peanut740 or Stockman could enlighten us more!
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Shawn, Rogers bone changed over the years, your knife could be Rogers. I know KK's were handled in Rogers and they and Winchesters were made in the same factory for a time.

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Here is my very old WINCHESTER with the CARMEN punch blade tang stamped 4/7/08.
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Nice old Winchester.

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Here are a few old Winchesters I've collected over the years:
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Those are awesome! ::tu:: ::tu::
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msteele6 wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:27 pm Here are a few old Winchesters I've collected over the years:
Love these. Beautiful celluloid.
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Sorry about the pictures, I just wanted to shoe the punch blade.
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Jacknifeben wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:08 pm Sorry about the pictures, I just wanted to shoe the punch blade.
That's my favorite style of punch, unfortunately I don't have any like that. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Anyone know the approximate value of this old Winchester marble celluloid Jack knife?
Made in USA
Bought it for $3 at an antique store.
It was all corroded and filthy.
Took it home and cleaned and polished it.
Cool little pocket knife
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:shock: All i can tell you bbb ( :wink: ) is that knife now is worth waaaay more then 3 bucks! Good on ya mate for an excellent find ::tu:: .
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::tu::
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Nice old contract made Winchester, probably from the later 1930's. Value is highly dependent on condition, therefore no one can really put a value on it from the information given. Needed information would include, size of the knife, pictures of the other half of the knife, information on how the blades snap open and closed, and any information on other damage. Having said all of that, if the knife is 3 1/4" +/-, if the knife snaps and if there is no unseen damage (e.g. to the other side of the knife) I would guess that the knife would sell on the big auction site for $20-35. The value suffers because the knife is not an actual Winchester made knife but rather a contract. JMO
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Nice find bigbennyb. Very nice cleanup too. That's a good looker.
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