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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I got a few. Not the best pictures but here they are. A 4920 Gunstock Lobster. A 2377 Pearl Pen. A 2306 Pearl Pen. A 2908 Bone Pen and an Assortment Toothpick. Thanks for looking. :)
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And more. :)
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Those are awesome!!! ::tu:: ::tu::


I'm trying to figure out why antique Winchester knives are so scarce, given the number of pocket knives they produced? Working the E.C. Simmons angle to see if I can find some answers. If Simmons Hardware was taking all they could produce, under the Keen Kutter logo for 17 years, that might explain something. ::hmm::
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ww usually lobster knives don't interest me but you have the exception. that is a very fine knife. Great old worn bones and wonderful shape and blades. ::tu:: ::tu::
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1967redrider wrote:Those are awesome!!! ::tu:: ::tu::


I'm trying to figure out why antique Winchester knives are so scarce, given the number of pocket knives they produced? Working the E.C. Simmons angle to see if I can find some answers. If Simmons Hardware was taking all they could produce, under the Keen Kutter logo for 17 years, that might explain something. ::hmm::
Redrider you could be onto something. I have a KK that Danno said was probably made by Winchester. I will post a picture of it soon. :)
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doglegg wrote:ww usually lobster knives don't interest me but you have the exception. that is a very fine knife. Great old worn bones and wonderful shape and blades. ::tu:: ::tu::
Thank you Doglegg! I got that one in a trade with Ed Landers. I really liked it and was able to trade for it. Appreciate your comments. :)
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1967redrider wrote:Those are awesome!!! ::tu:: ::tu::


I'm trying to figure out why antique Winchester knives are so scarce, given the number of pocket knives they produced? Working the E.C. Simmons angle to see if I can find some answers. If Simmons Hardware was taking all they could produce, under the Keen Kutter logo for 17 years, that might explain something. ::hmm::
Redrider I put my EC Simmons Keen Kutter probably made by Winchester in that thread. I think you may be onto something with your theory. :)
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woodwalker wrote:
1967redrider wrote:Those are awesome!!! ::tu:: ::tu::


I'm trying to figure out why antique Winchester knives are so scarce, given the number of pocket knives they produced? Working the E.C. Simmons angle to see if I can find some answers. If Simmons Hardware was taking all they could produce, under the Keen Kutter logo for 17 years, that might explain something. ::hmm::
Redrider I put my EC Simmons Keen Kutter probably made by Winchester in that thread. I think you may be onto something with your theory. :)
Hopefully others with way more knowledge on the situation than me will reply. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
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Eye Brand Man wrote:Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
Very nice Eye Brand Man!!!
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KV10 wrote:
Eye Brand Man wrote:Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
Very nice Eye Brand Man!!!
I agree and ::welcome:: to AAPK, KV10. ::tu:: ::tu::
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1967redrider wrote:
KV10 wrote:
Eye Brand Man wrote:Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
Very nice Eye Brand Man!!!
I agree and ::welcome:: to AAPK, KV10. ::tu:: ::tu::
Thank you Reddrider.
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Eye Brand Man wrote:Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
::tu:: ::tu::
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Eye Brand Man wrote:Snagged this one at a gun show recently. 3933 Whittler. Still has etch
Wow!!! :shock:
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You can say that again! ::drool:: ::drool:: ::drool::
To bad them, there, are, waaaaaaay to far out of me checky book range...I like/buy to many other knives anyway :mrgreen: Now to find a couple... :mrgreen:
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Wish these two old Winchester’s were in better condition. One has the old double fluted NAPANOCH punch blade and PAT,D tang stamp and the other one has a perfect spey blade and punch.
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Very nice, Jacknifeben! You should consider getting the pile side of the green knife re-scaled. I love that punch on old blue. ::tu:: ::tu::
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Very nice old punch blade knives!!
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Here's one of my Winchesters to share, and promise to get some better photos of my Winchester Swell-End Jack in bone soon...

This is a Winchester Jr Stock Whittler (3046 on pile side of tang) which is a fairly rare pattern - Celluloid handles are faux horn (and though I'm not fond of celluloid I couldn't resist this one)... Blades have some spotting and tarnish but handles are stable. Much of the Winchester etch remains on master blade. Big thick wedge between the two springs...
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Nice one, Lee. Do you know what year that one was made?
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QTCut5 wrote:Nice one, Lee. Do you know what year that one was made?
Thanks Q ::handshake:: ... No doubt between 1929-1942 but I’m thinking earlier as it was noted in a reference (maybe Houston Zalesky) that if both blades have the pile side model #s than age is earlier than later over the time frame of Winchester - this knife does have both pile sides stamped with model # ... in truth really hard to pinpoint a year... here’s a catalog cut that was kindly provided by another member for this knife - and unfortunately I do not know the year of the catalog from this cut ::facepalm:: .. interestingly Houston Zalesky noted the pattern as a Jr Stock Whittler but this catalog cut refers to a 3 blade knife.. which is sometimes not unusual as names sometimes evolve but are rarely listed in the old catalogs... Cheers
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I was fortunate to have picked up some nice ones in Lexington! Here’s a sneak peak. I will post more pics later.
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Great looking knives! ::tu:: ::tu::

Check out how similar a Keen Kutter champagne knife looks to the Winchester. Same knife?
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1967redrider wrote:Great looking knives! ::tu:: ::tu::

Check out how similar a Keen Kutter champagne knife looks to the Winchester. Same knife?
I’m sure it is!!
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Flea market fine. Blades still snap hard. Pattern 2993
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