American Knife Co. Winsted, Ct.

[JohnR]

Pretty neat Joe, tiny little thing.

[FRJ]

Thanks, John.
It is tiny. I have smaller knives and they all have good action off the spring.

[American_knife_wct]

The posted text is correct except the company was Bokar. I am the grandson of Domenick Russo. He was a hard working man who never owned a car. Always walked to worked. Rain, snow or shine. A good 20 minute walk easily.

[FRJ]

Thank you American_knife_wct. I assume you are referring to the text from Goins Encyclopedia at nine post back.
Thank you for the clarification. Glad you could join us again.
Welcome, and thank you for the interesting insight of your Grandfather, Domenick Russo.

[American_knife_wct]

Yes, the Goins encyclopedia.

[luckydog64]

Here is a straight line American Winsted, that I have had a while but never took a photo. Single back spring. I really like that caplifter Joe.

[wlf]

Here's a signature Empire pattern by American. I flipped the mark side so you could read the stamp. I didn't remember seeing this thread, But I had assumed a German influence to Empire because of the way the bone was hafted on this knife. It's typical for many German knives to have somewhat thicker bone at the bolsters and then dubbed off instead of thinned into the bolsters.

[FRJ]

Luckydog64, that is a very much intact and beautiful, American Knife Co.
Such good condition.

Thank you for posting it.

[FRJ]

lyle, what a terrific looking knife. A Saddlehorn, if I remember correctly.?

Certainly Empirish. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting it here.

By the way you visited the thread in December 4, 2018. Top of page two.

Thanks for looking in again.

A man with some stunning knives.

[edge213]

Here's a signature Empire pattern by American. I flipped the mark side so you could read the stamp. I had never seen this thread, and had assumed a German influence to Empire because of the way the bone was hafted on this knife. It's typical for many German knives to have somewhat thicker bone at the bolsters and then dubbed off instead of thinned into the bolsters.

Cool knife

[wlf]

lyle, what a terrific looking knife. A Saddlehorn, if I remember correctly.?

Certainly Empirish. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting it here.

By the way you visited the thread in December 4, 2018. Top of page two.

Thanks for looking in again.

A man with some stunning knives.

Duh. And I just read it through. Senility settling in.