A Pat-on-the-Back and THANK YOU!!!

[wally waltham]

I just want to take a moment to Thank ALL the people who contribute to this Forum. Without your contributions and support this BB would quickly become a (cob) website of unanswered questions and unshared knowledge.
And what brings on this outporing of gratitude? I recently asked a question on a knife BB about the history of the "Waltham Cutlery Co." expecting the same level of response I would get here and have yet to recieve an answer much less a cutting remark. It really made me appreciate the people here specifically, and in the NAWCC, generally.
So give yourselves A PAT on the BACK* and accept my THANKS for a job Well Done!!
Timely Regards,
ww
P.S. If any of you have any info. on the "Waltham Cutlery Co." or know where I can look for some please let me know. Thanks, ww
* Jon and other Patriot fans, You can construe this mean what Peyton Manning has to look forward to tomorrow!!

[wally waltham]

I just want to take a moment to Thank ALL the people who contribute to this Forum. Without your contributions and support this BB would quickly become a (cob) website of unanswered questions and unshared knowledge.
And what brings on this outporing of gratitude? I recently asked a question on a knife BB about the history of the "Waltham Cutlery Co." expecting the same level of response I would get here and have yet to recieve an answer much less a cutting remark. It really made me appreciate the people here specifically, and in the NAWCC, generally.
So give yourselves A PAT on the BACK* and accept my THANKS for a job Well Done!!
Timely Regards,
ww
P.S. If any of you have any info. on the "Waltham Cutlery Co." or know where I can look for some please let me know. Thanks, ww
* Jon and other Patriot fans, You can construe this mean what Peyton Manning has to look forward to tomorrow!!

[Jon Hanson]

Hi WW,

Could you please give me a range of dates for your request?

Go Pats! (John LaCambria and I will be pumped up tomorrow about this time of the day! The whole city is frothing! :biggrin:)

Jon

Jon Hanson, NAWCC #8801
Founder and President Chapter 149 (http://nawcc-ch149.com), The Early American Watch Club

[wally waltham]

And Hi to you, JH,
The 2 knives I have "appear" to be from the early 1900s. One is a 2 bladed pocket knife similar to a "Barlow" knife with wooden handles and the other is a 2 bladed penknife with mother of pearl inserts. Both have "Waltham Cutlery Co." stamped on one of the blades.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but that is why I was trying to research them.
Neither of the knife books I have even mention this company and my searches of numerous Search Engines came up zero, zilch, nada. I have also emailed the Charles River Museum of Industry asking their help and tried to see what online help I could get from the Waltham Public Library. I await an answer from the CRMI and the library didn't seem to offer anything online.
I certainly appreciate your help Jon, but please, PLEASE be more circumspect in your phasing as the image of frozen froth flying from the fan's faces has quite put me off my Pablum. :smile: :smile: :wink:
Timely Regards,
ww

[This message was edited by wally waltham on January 17, 2004 at 15:59.]

[Spike]

The book Romance of Knife Collecting (Dewey Ferguson, 1969) doesn't mention a "Waltham Cutlery Co." It does mention a "Walthon Cutlery Co." but doesn't provide any info about it (and a Google search turned up nothing).

[ljrusso]

I miss American football...... :frown:

[Tim]

Wally, I visited the Waltham Public Library a number of years ago for a school project on the Waltham Watch Co. My impression was that you had to go in-person and sort through the historical documents yoruself. I doubt they have this stuff online.

Heck, even the Harvard libraries rely on the user digging up that handwritten preface to TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. :wink: Even if materials were online, they'd only be a minor fraction of what a library has in storage or in the stacks.

-Tim

[BrianC]

Wally,
I don't think the Waltham Cutlery Co. was in Waltham, Mass. It seems I remember seeing that company before but I can't remember what state it was in.
Brian C.

pwpartsetc@pwatch.com

[terry hall]

The book GOINS' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CULTERY MARKINGS has two entries for Waltham Cutlery Co.

One is Waltham Cutlery Co - Germany
The other is Waltam Cutlery Co.

This reference provides no further information as far as location or dating. There was not an image of the tang stamp used.

The reference with the Germany marking, indicates that at least part of their line was imported, which was not uncommon to the trade. Sometimes the imported line was a secondary line to their main offerings.