Thread: Document, 1889, Revision of the tariff, America VS Sheffield & Solingen.

This document, from 1889-1890, Revision of the tariff, clearly shows the strugle of American cutlery co VS Sheffield and Solingen.
It is a discussion between Thomas Bradley Presidents of the New York Knife Co and the chairman.

Fascinating post, I read every word. Thanks for posting.

Martin thanks again for the cool read.
My favorite line was from Mr. Bradley " Every American with sufficient patriotism ought to buy an American knife if it does cost 2 cents more then the German"

This is cool, thanks for posting! By any chance is this from "The American Cutler"?

No its from:

Very interesting read. This was right around the time Andrew Carnagie was building his smelter to be able to produce top quality American steel. I have to assume his mention of "dabbling" in steel production had to be talking about Andrew.. Seems odd to me as around that time was getting it right with high quality steel or this was just before.

How interesting

Originally Posted by sidmind

Very interesting read. This was right around the time Andrew Carnagie was building his smelter to be able to produce top quality American steel. I have to assume his mention of "dabbling" in steel production had to be talking about Andrew.. Seems odd to me as around that time was getting it right with high quality steel or this was just before.

Good point for sure, but you have to remember that the American cutlery companies during that time in history were loaded with Sheffielders,
and im not so sure they would be so kind to changing to American steel VS there good, very familiar to them Sheffield steel.