Queen Cutlery Catalogs
The Queen Cutlery Company catalogs offered below
are in PDF format and are available to download. Queen started to publish
catalogs in the late 1940s and continued to do so until the closing in 2018.
These catalogs were usually annual publications but you will notice that there
are several years where none were published and in some cases
a single catalog could span several years.
The Queen Cutlery Company began manufacturing pocket knives
in Titusville, PA about 1919. Five men (Geza Revitzky,
Frank Foresther, Erick C. Erickson, Harry L Mathews,
and Jesse F. Baker), who had formally been employed at Schatt & Morgan
Cutlery Company, also in Titusville, named their start-up Queen City Cutlery
Company. In January, 1922 the company was incorporated as a Delaware
corporation. Revitzky and Baker left and the
remaining three ran a successful cutlery through the 1920s producing large
quantities of stainless steel pen knives for the
jewelry companies in New York and New Jersey. Schatt & Morgan Cutlery went
into receivership in the early 1930s. Queen City purchased the bankrupt cutlery
in 1933.
Foresther, Mathews and Erickson
ran the company through WWII and at the close of the war, they re-worked their
business plans from war time production to a post war market economy. We have
seen no printed company advertising literature or catalogs prior to 1946.
In 1946, these three owners liquidated the assets of the Queen City Cutlery Company and reorganized as the Queen Cutlery Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation. They launched their first catalog around late 1948 to early 1949; began a transition from carbon steel to stainless; began using a new Winterbottom bone as their primary handle material, and began a national sales effort.
In 2018, having produced high quality cutlery using traditional methods for 96 years, Queen Cutlery closed its doors for good.
Original Queen Catalog Page: https://queencutleryhistory.com/index.php/queen-catalogs/
Below are copies made from the Awesome Queen Historical site. For lots more on their history please check it out.
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Queen Catalog No. 82 - 1947 Queen’s 1947 catalog contains 30 pages of photos and descriptions of their knife offerings from that postwar year. |
Queen Catalog No. 82 - 1949 Queen used its 1947 catalog again in 1949, with 8 new pages
of scissors and a price sheet. Other items are the same.
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Queen Catalog No. 85 - 1950 The Queen 1950 catalog includes 62 pages ,
showcasing all their cutlery products and display cases and includes a price
list.
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Queen Catalog No. 88 - 1952 Queen’s 1952 catalog runs 60 pages, showcasing all their
products, and includes a price list and sharpening tips.
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Queen Catalog No. 89 - 1953 Queen’s 1953 catalog had few changes. Product pages are the
same but the display case lineup was changed. |
Queen Catalog No. 90 - 1954 Catalog 90 was released in 1954 and includes 67 pages full of product photos and information plus a price list. |
Queen Catalog No. 91 - 1955 In 1955 Queen published the 63 page
catalog No. 91. It was a transitional time for tang stamps. Several appear
here. |
Queen Catalog No. 92 - 1956 The Queen catalog for 1956 had 59 pages, showcasing all
their cutlery products and displays. Some photos are in color. |
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Queen Catalog No. 93 - 1959 Catalog 93 was Queen’s first in three years. It is 52 pages
in length and includes a price list and more color. |
Queen Catalog No. 94 - 1960 Queen’s first catalog of the ’60’s was similar to that of
the previous year and also ran to 52 pages, including prices. |
Queen Catalog No. 95 - 1963 The 1963 catalog also contained 52 pages, of hunting knives,
folders, axes, scissors tableware and carving
sets. |
Queen Catalog No. 96 - 1965 In 1965 Queen issued the 49 page
catalog No. 96 with hunting knives, folders, axes, scissors
tableware and carving sets. |
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Queen Catalog No. 97 - 1968 The 1968 catalog was scaled back a bit to 45 pages,
including an updated price list. Most offerings were unchanged. |
Queen Catalog 1969 -1970 Queen’s first catalog after the Servotronics
acquisition was similar to that of the previous year and contained
48 pages. |
Queen Catalog 1972 - 1978 This new 31 page catalog was much
changed from past years, with a new layout and more color
photos. |
Queen Catalog - 1980 The new decade saw a new look to the catalog with a color
cover photo. It was also condensed to just 15 pages. |
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Queen Catalog - 1981 Queen’s 1981 catalog, at 14 pages, was largely unchanged
from that of the previous year. A NKCA knife was
offered. |
Queen Catalog 1982 Queen’s 60’th anniversary catalog with limited editions and
a color insert which increased the catalog size to 21 pages. |
Queen Catalog 1995 In 1995 products from sister company Ontario Knife appeared
along with Queen, Schatt & Morgan and Robeson knives. |
Queen Catalog 1996 Similar to that of the prior year, the 1996 Queen catalog
was a bit smaller, at 28 pages but still featured several product lines. |
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Queen Catalog 1997 The 1997 edition was again similar to the previous catalog
with several pages devoted to military cutlery and updates to the S&M
series. |
Queen Catalog 1998 The 1998 catalog was a nice re-design with all color pages and a sole focus on Queen, S&M
& Robeson. Military knives were out. |
Queen Catalog 1999 Queen’s last catalog of the 20th century was another fresh
design with 16 pages of cutlery presented with down-home ambiance. |
Queen Catalog 2002 - 2003 A freshly designed color catalog, the first since the millenium, highlighted the company’s heavy use of D2 steel. |
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Queen Catalog 2004 - 2005 With an old photo of Queen’s staff on the cover,
handle materials such as abalone and cocobolo are shown. |
Queen Catalog 2006 - 2007 Expanded to 37 color pages the ’06-’07 catalog has a full
range of budget to premium cutlery from Queen and S&M. |
Queen Catalog 2008 - 2009 This catalog was huge, at 92 pages in a new, smaller format.
It was also a big improvement in marketing for
Queen. |
Queen Catalog 2010 - 2011 The 2010-2011 Queen catalog was pared to 68 pages yet
featured a wide array of products mixed with production photos. |
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Queen Catalog 2012 - 2013 Queen’s ’12-’13 catalog was similar to the previous edition
and included a letter from a new company president. |
Queen Catalog 2014 In 2014 Queen returned to a letter-size page format
featuring limited and standard production product from Queen and S&M. |
Queen Catalog 2015 In 2015 Queen continued with a diverse offering of handle
materials, including a limited production series with buffalo horn. |
Queen Catalog 2016 An ambitious project, the 2017 catalog featured a “kiddo
knife section”, featuring owner Ken Daniels. It contained 57 pages. |
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Queen Catalog 2017 This was the last catalog published by Queen before the
bankruptcy. Still it was optimistic with 41 pages of
fine cutlery. |