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The mid-1930s were a difficult time for many American industries including the cutlery industry. Many once famous and thriving cutlery companies met their demise in this era of economic hardship. One of them, the Schatt and Morgan Cutlery Company of Titusville, Pennsylvania came to an end after nearly four decades of producing some of the finest cutlery know in the history of the industry.

Five former employees who had been previously released from Schatt and Margan, started their own business in 1922. They named their new company "Queen City Cutlery" after their hometown of Titusville, which was quite often referred to as the Queen City. They developed a thriving contract business and were still doing well then their former employer, Schatt and Morgan closed their doors in the 1930s. At a Sheriff's auction, the Queen City Cutlery founders bought all the holdings, land, buildings and equipment of the bankrupted Schatt and Morgan Company.
In the 1960s, at time of modernization and restructuring, many cutlery businesses were closing their doors or being purchased for corporate diversification. In 1969 the ancestors of the five Queen City founders felt their business would survive better being part of a corporate conglomeration, so they sold the business to Servotronics Corporation of Buffalo, New York. In September of 2012, Queen Cutlery was purchased by Ken Daniels of Oak Hill, Ohio. Mr. Daniels, a long time collector and dealer of Queen knives since 1950s, and a traditional pocket knife expert, is the perfect blend for one of the oldest knife companies in America.

Queen Cutlery still uses some of the old Schatt and Morgan equipment, tooling, manufacturing processes and has become the finest manufacturer of high quality antique style pocket knives and hunting knives in the U.S. The former Schatt and Morgan brand is considered the most valuable collectable pocket knife available. Queen Cutlery branded knives are the finest built user knives on the market.

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