Thread: American Knife Co. Plymouth Hollow, Conn.

The King razor Mfg was quite the business in its time!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

A feral cat, or a pet? Dead cat? A mouser, perhaps? Green apples? Inquiring minds need to know!
The devil is in the details!

If it was a D-9 Cat, he is not a man to be trifled with.

Originally Posted by Martin103

The King razor Mfg was quite the business in its time!

Nice work, Martin! I knew I could count on you! I had an "extra good", a "Gold Man", and some of the others! They all seemed to be the same razor! Just labeled/scaled differently! Ol' King was a "Sharp Cat!"

Originally Posted by Wullie

If it was a D-9 Cat, he is not a man to be trifled with.

Now THAT's a cat of a different color! I suppose Wullie has logged some hours with those beasts?


I noticed that King was a big maker of money belts. My grandaddy had one with a zipper and it had a 1000 dollar bill in it. I wonder?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Now THAT's a cat of a different color! I suppose Wullie has logged some hours with those beasts?

WAY more than I care to remember. They don't "side load" on a trailer too well either. I told an ol boy that one day. He was one of those college educated, know-it-all super truckers. He didn't want to go to the trouble of breaking his trailer in two to load it like it was SUPPOSED to be loaded. He just set her down and told me to drive it on from the side. I argued with him a bit and seen it was a waste of time, so I side loaded that big pig and broke the side off his damned trailer!

Talk about a kodak moment...... The look on his face was PRICELESS!

Now a scan of a photo of you on one would be ........Priceless!

Used to have a bunch of pics. They went the way of the wild goose. Had a lot of great heavy haul crane trucking pics that got lost in a hard drive failure because unlike Jesus, I didn't save them. Finally learned my lesson, I back up pics on an external 1TB drive now.

I still have one pic of crane wreck though. Used to have a bunch.

He fell down. Dummy was running without outrigger pads and it punched through.

Got called out on a SUNDAY morning when it was 33° and drizzling rain to stand that punk back up and haul it back home. THAT was a morning to forget but somehow, I can't. LOL The hangover from the night before didn't help either.......

Goes to show! Wullie has seen it all!
I want to go heretofore to Geneva Cutlery/Genco. We need to do it!
Who's in?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Goes to show! Wullie has seen it all!
I want to go heretofore to Geneva Cutlery/Genco. We need to do it!
Who's in?

I've got one out to Glen having some scales made right now. It's a nice pyramid with a 23 in it. I'll post pics soon as I get them. I told him take his time and he's picking color and material. It'll be a nice surprise.

Before we get off on Geneva, Lets work our way from Texas!
Per Goins: Founded in Austin, Texas about 1884 by Albert Teagarden. Joseph Shumate became a partner in 1895, and the name became Teagarden and Shumate. They first dealt in cutlery about 1900. Shumate moved to St Louis in 1904. Two Roth's became partners in the firm and they sold knives and cutlery until 1932.
I suppose they imported? No "Germany" on them. Only St Louis.
Anyway, this Pacific model has a nice, pronounced double grind and the smiler at the bottom has a much different tang stamp!

That's the exact tang stamp that is on my shumate barber's deluxe!