Colonial coke bottles

Colonial Knife was incorporated in 1926 by three brothers; Antonio, Domenic, & Fredrick Paolantonio. It grew to become one of the largest pocket knife manufacturers in the US during the 1960s. The company shut down in 1998, but was back into production under the Colonial Cutlery International Corporation in 2001. Colonial Cutlery International, Inc. brand is the imported line of knives and tools while the U.S.A.- made products fall under the Colonial Knife brand.
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2 beautiful celluloid well built Colonials.
Not often I find such well built knives made by Colonial.
These 2 must be very early.
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Handsome looking knives. Do they have solid bolsters ?
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philco wrote:Handsome looking knives. Do they have solid bolsters ?
Yes sir they do.
Very well built knives.
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Those are standard pinned handles/solid bolsters with a through-and-through pivot pin. Very "typical" slipjoint construction. Those two knives were built well before the shell handle patents were applied for, I believe. The "arched" Colonial stamps were dated from 1926-1938 by a couple online sources - YMMV of course! I "borrowed" a close-up pic of the stamp from another forum:
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Thank you Tony.
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Those are great old knives, David.
I really like those. ::tu::
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Yessir they really are a couple of Great knives. Even better in person.
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