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Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 12:35 am**

I just picked up this little knife today for $15, and I'm curious about the manufacturer. Goins' book lists them as being in business 1875-1900, but nothing else about them. It also lists a company by the same name but in St. Louis, having the same dates of operation. Were these the same company, with two locations? Is there any more info about them out there? I did a quick Google search, but didn't go really deep.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 1:25 am**

Levine shows Terre Haute and St. Louis (c.1900), no Baltimore. I'm from Baltimore, PM me if you're looking to sell it. Thanks J.O'.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 1:52 am**

Very cool stamp and it looks like there's some nice fire in the pearl.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 1:34 pm**

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 1:25 am Levine shows Terre Haute and St. Louis (c.1900), no Baltimore. I'm from Baltimore, PM me if you're looking to sell it. Thanks J.O'.

I collect by unusual tang stamp, so I'm keeping this one, but if I find another, for sure!

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 4:19 pm**

This 4 blade cattle knife is stamped "US CUT CO BALTO MD". I believe this knife was made by New York Knife Co.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 9:30 pm**

U,S. Cut Co Baltimore was a combined short lived effort between several cutlery companies. Schrade Cut Co and NY Knife Co were two but there were also one or two more, possibly Challenge or one of the other New England companies but I can't recall off the top of my head. I had saved an old article announcing that effort but I'm not sure where I saved it, Ugh! It'll turn up eventually.

Eric

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 11:10 pm**

ea42 wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 9:30 pm U,S. Cut Co Baltimore was a combined short lived effort between several cutlery companies. Schrade Cut Co and NY Knife Co were two but there were also one or two more, possibly Challenge or one of the other New England companies but I can't recall off the top of my head. I had saved an old article announcing that effort but I'm not sure where I saved it, Ugh! It'll turn up eventually.

Eric

Thanks, Eric! That's a lot more than I had before.

Posted: **Fri May 31, 2024 11:43 pm**

Gifted by Herb, from the Roland Proctor collection.

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:44 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 11:43 pm Gifted by Herb, from the Roland Proctor collection.

Nice looking old ebony!

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2024 1:31 am**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 11:43 pm Gifted by Herb, from the Roland Proctor collection.

Wonderful gift.

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2024 1:49 am**

J.O'.

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2024 3:32 am**

Thanks gents!

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:46 am**

John, That oval shield makes me think Schrade made. Is it 3 1/8" closed?
A nice keepsake.

I miss Roland.

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:51 am**

1fartsmella wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:46 am John, That oval shield makes me think Schrade made. Is it 3 1/8" closed?
A nice keepsake.

I miss Roland.

Yes, it is.

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2024 4:23 am**

Schrade used that pattern with the oval shield for many blade configurations.
Pen Knives, Jacks, stock man, whittlers, 4 blades
Celluloid, bone, pearl and maybe stag (I bet Lloyd has a stag one).
Thanks for sharing.

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:37 am**

1fartsmella wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 2:46 amI miss Roland.

me too Barry

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:47 pm**

Great knives posted , here’s another one for the thread .
Looking like a NYK knife to me ?

Thanks for looking , Mike

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:53 pm**

Mike

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 1:58 pm**

ScoutKnives wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 12:47 pm Great knives posted , here’s another one for the thread .
Looking like a NYK knife to me ?

Thanks for looking , Mike

Love that old bone.

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 3:45 pm**

I think that U.S. Cut. Co. sold seconds from several manufacturers, I have definitely seen one with a Keen Kutter (Walden) stamp overstamped with the U.S. Cut. Co. stamp and several NYK stamps overstamped the same. The Washington jack looks like a Schrade. The one commonality between them is that they were all Walden N.Y. based cutleries, don't know if that is a coincidence. Here is an English jack that looks to be Walden, the stamp is a little hard to read but it is a U.S. Cutlery:

Posted: **Sun Jun 15, 2025 5:42 pm**

Awesome examples.

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:31 am**

msteele6 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 15, 2025 3:45 pm I think that U.S. Cut. Co. sold seconds from several manufacturers, I have definitely seen one with a Keen Kutter (Walden) stamp overstamped with the U.S. Cut. Co. stamp and several NYK stamps overstamped the same. The Washington jack looks like a Schrade. The one commonality between them is that they were all Walden N.Y. based cutleries, don't know if that is a coincidence. Here is an English jack that looks to be Walden, the stamp is a little hard to read but it is a U.S. Cutlery:

Pretty

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2025 1:43 am**

J'O'. (From Baltimore).

Posted: **Mon Jun 16, 2025 2:27 pm**

Nice old knives from a "maker" (jobber?) I never heard of. Thanks for posting. Always good to expand knife knowledge.

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