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STAG HORN KITCHEN KNIFE LANDERS FRARY CLARK AETNA WORKS GREETINGS, FEEL FREE TO "SHOP NAKED." We deal in items we believe others will enjoy and want to purchase. We are not experts. We welcome any comments, questions, or concerns. WE ARE TARGETING A GLOBAL MARKET PLACE. Thanks in advance for your patronage. Please Be sure to add WDG to your favorites list! NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE? AN ANTIQUE DEER STAG HORN HANDLE CHOP KNIFE FABRICATED BY LANDER'S FRARY CLARK AETNA WORKS AND HALLMARK AS SUCH A CUSTOM MADE FACTORY BLADE FORGED CIRCA 1890 RARE / HARD TO FIND HORN HANDLE CUTTING KNIFE CULINARY / KITCHEN COLLECTIBLE FOR YOUR TABLE TOTAL LENGTH IS 12.5", THE HANDLE IS 1" ROUND AND ABOUT 4.25" LONG KNIFE AND BLADE SHOW AGE AND WEAR. OVER 100 YEARS OLD ---------------------------------------------- FYI Landers, Frary Clark is the name of a company, based in New Britain, Connecticut that made housewares from 1865 until its assets were sold to the General Electric company in 1965. They manufactured a huge number of products over the years including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products. Many of these items were marketed under the brand Universal. The Saga of Landers, Frary Clark By Earl Lifshey Copyright The National Housewares Manufacturers Association Reprinted with permission. "This is the story of Landers, Frary Clark and its service to the American home. For more than a century three able men, active in the industrial, political and cultural life in New Britain and in Connecticut, were the principal actors in our little story. But the real theme is the changing pattern of American living in the past 100 years and of the company's contribution to this changing pattern, because Landers has been making products for the American home for nearly twelve decades and its success has been due to ability to change products with the changing times." Those were the words with which Richard L. White, then chairman of the board of directors of Landers, Frary Clark, began a speech on his company's history at a meeting of The Newcomen Society in Noank, Connecticut, August 12, 1955. (Mr. White resigned as chairman in 1958. B. C. Neece continued as president of the company. The following year he was named chairman but retired in 1960. Harry T. Silverman, who had been president and was then elected chairman, was the last to hold that post.) In 1965 though, this great company, once one of the best known and most prestigious in the housewares and hardware business, closed its doors permanently. The unbelievable had happened. While rumors of its impending doom had long been zig-zagging throughout the marketplace, the final reality came as a shock to the thousands of retailers who had known and dealt with the company for so long. On May 17, 1965 its illustrious "Universal" trademark along with the remaining assets, inventory and equipment were acquired by the General Electric Company's Housewares Division, though not until after some rather frantic last minute meetings with government officials in Washington who wanted to satisfy themselves the acquisition involved no "monopolistic" aspects. The number of products manufactured by Landers over the years was enormous and their scope amazing. They made stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, cutlery and aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products. And somehow, almost until the very end, it seemed to work out profitably. Landers, Frary Clark traces its start to the time George Landers, age sixteen, arrived in New Britain, Connecticut in 1829 looking for a job. He soon went to work for Josiah Dewey who, seven years earlier, had started a small foundry making cupboard latches and other hardware. After Dewey's death, it became Landers Smith Manufacturing Company in 1853. As president, Landers' salary was seven hundred dollars a year. In 1862 the small but prosperous company made another of the many acquisitions that were to mark its history and growth in future years. It acquired the firm of Frary, Clark Company, of Meriden Connecticut, the company name changed to Landers, Frary Clark, which it retained for the next full century of its existence.... (STOCK PICTURE FOR DISPLAY ONLY) --------------------------- Thanks for choosing this sale. You may email for alternate payment arrangements. We combine shipping. Please pay promptly after the auction. The item will be shipped upon receipt of funds. 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