Robeson Master Craft 4” Congress set

The first Robeson knives were imported by Millard Robeson from England and Germany exclusively. This continued from 1979 until 1896 when Robeson began manufacturing knives in the United States. Since inception, the company has gone through several reorganizations & eventually ended up as a Queen Cutlery brand.
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Robeson Master Craft 4” Congress set

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Any info on when these were made, any other details welcome

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Pretty knives for sure, but also for sure they were not made by the original Robeson company. Maybe A G Russel products?
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Can you show a picture of the tang markings ?
I have not seen these before so cannot comment on their origin.
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Have to be Queen made. Ontario owned/owns the Robeson trademarks and Queen used them on a lot of limited run knives staring about 1998.
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Yes, I missed the queen stamp

Here are all the stamps
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kootenay joe wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:36 am Can you show a picture of the tang markings ?
I have not seen these before so cannot comment on their origin.
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As stated above, made by Queen, but they're not reproductions because Robeson never produced such a knife and they can't be "MasterCraft" because they haven't got a bronze bearing on the bottoms of the blade tangs.

But, not a fantasy item either, because Ontario Knife or whoever the entity was when the knives were made, actually owned the rights to use the Robeson name.

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They are very attractive knives particularly as a set as seen in OP.
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