My Queen steel knives

The Queen Cutlery Company manufactured knives in Titusville Pennsylvania for 96 years. The company opened its only factory there in 1919 and commenced to make some of the best US crafted cutlery you will find. Unfortunately, the Titusville manufacturing plant closed down in 2018.
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Steelie99
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My Queen steel knives

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Hi all!
I have 2 Queen Cutlery knives. Both are straight blade hunting knives.
One, with the original sheath, was a gift from my father to my grandfather back in the late 1950's. I inherited it from there. From my father's limited recollection of when he bought it, confirmed by the tang stamp, this #75 knife was made between 1957 and 1960. It has some green staining on the handle, which I think is synthetic.

The other, without sheath, is a #77, which I found under a house that had been abandoned for over 25 years. It has no tang stamp, and so it must be from between 1960 and 1972. I scrubbed it up a little. The blade still has a good edge and is in good condition. The handle is synthetic, as many of the handles were at the time. Parts of the handle need more work. I am also going to make a new sheath for it.

If anyone has more precise dates on the #75 and #77, or advice on how to tend the handles, or any other comments, please chime in!
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The family connection sure makes it special. ::nod::
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Can't help you any further with narrowing down the date of your #77 but I pulled the pic below from the QueenCutleryHistory.com.
It might help you when making that sheath.
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Hi Steelie, Randy here. your knife with the tang stamp I believe the handle is not synthetic but bone. It is called winterbottom bone. Queen used a ton of winterbottom on their early fixed blades as well as folding pocket knives also. Best regards, Randy
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I agree with clockman. Bone handles on the #75.
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That's great! I had read that around this time Queen started using synthetic handles. It would be pretty neat if it was real bone!
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