Schatt & Morgan Cutlery Company
The mid 1930's were a difficult time for many American industries including the cutlery industry.
Many once famous and thriving companies met there demise in this era of economic
difficulty. One of them, the Schaat and Morgan cutlery company of Titusville, Pennsylvania
came to an end after nearly four decades of producing some of the finest cutlery known in
the history of the industry. Five former employees, E. Clarence Erickson, Jesse F. Barker,
Harry L. Mathews, Geza Foresther, and Frank Foresther who had been previously released
from Schaat and Morgan, started there own business in 1922. They named their new company
"Queen City Cutlery" after there hometown of Titusville, which was quite often refereed to
as the Queen City. They developed a thriving contract business and were still doing well when
their former employer, Schaat and Morgan closed there doors in the 1930's. at a sheriff's auction
the Queen City Cutlery Company's founders bought all the holdings, land, buildings, and equipment
of the bankrupted Schaat and Morgan Company.
In the late 1960's, a time of modernization and diversification, 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 a part of a corporate
conglomeration. Queen City Cutlery was purchased by Servotronics Corporation of Buffalo,
New York. Since that time Queen Cutlery has gone back to it's roots still using some of the old
Schaat and Morgan equipment, tooling, and processes and have become the finest manufacturer
of high quality antique style pocket knives and hunting knives in the U.S. today.
The former Schaat and Morgan brand is considered the most valuable collectable pocket knife available,
and the Queen Cutlery branded knives are the finest built user knives on the market.
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Clarence Risner has been a life-long collector of cutlery and pocket knives in general.
He is currently President of the National Knife Collectors Association. Having been in business
for over 30 years he has become a dealer of Schatt and Morgan Knives, Queen Cutlery Co. Knives,
an importer of Jim Bowie and Eye Brand knives. We have many patterns that are available only thru us.
We occasionally buy complete collections from other collectors. If you have a collection you would like to sell
please let us know. We are sorry but we will be unable to value any collections without seeing them first.
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Clarence Risner