1fartsmella wrote:Joe, gotta love the "wiggly" shield.
Lee, A jack with sheep foot & spay blades was made for a farmer. Don't know how much "marketing" was done back in the day.
Yes, it was a unique opportunity to be in the right place, at the right time. To be able to purchase knives from this fine collection of antique New England cutlery. Shoulder to shoulder with your knife show buddies, everybody got some fine collectable "keepers". This will be one of those... "Remember that show?" To pick this kind of collection is a rare find.
Funny that the "wiggly" shield was seen on so many Watervilles in all sizes - I associate that shield with Waterville though not sure other companies used it as well - certainly not to the degree that Waterville used them on knives..
Farm knife sounds right given the blades... marketing in the earlier 1800s was probably through catalogs or displays but early 1900s issues of the American Cutler or Iron Age no doubt had advertisements of many cutleries - certainly not marketing as we know it today... I was using the term loosely
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Now that my computer is back I will get photos of my Watervilles (and a few others) from that memorable show
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