March 11, 2024
VINTAGE COCA COLA IN BOTTLES 5cent MYSTERY POCKET KNIFE IMPERIAL PROV R.I. USA
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YOUR LOOKING AT ONE VINTAGE COCA COLA IN BOTTLES 5cent MYSTERY POCKET KNIFE Pearlized pin release for blade, Knife closed 3"long new condition still in package with instructions for opening & closing IMPERIAL, PROVIDENCE R.I. MADE in USA buyer pays $8.99 shipping and handling USA additional charge for overseas and Canada The Imperial Knife Company had its roots at the Empire Knife Company in Winsted, Connecticut . Felix and Michael Mirando, Empire employees and Italian immigrants from the ironworking town of Frosolone , decided to go into business for themselves in 1916. They moved to Providence, Rhode Island to be near its jewelry industry and began making skeletons for “waldemar,” or pocket watch chain knives. [ 2 ] With their friend Domenic Fazzano as manager, they established the Imperial Knife Company, which would grow to at one point be the largest knife manufacturer in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The company developed a number of successful innovations in the manufacture of commercial value-priced folding pocket knives.In 1941, Albert M. Baer purchased the Ulster Knife Company (which was founded in Ellenville, New York , in the 1870s) and merged it with the Imperial Knife Company and designated this new business as the Imperial Knife Associated Companies, to produce knives for the military. Albert's brother, Henry Baer,
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