Deep into early cutlery company research
Got a bunch of projects going on at the moment. One just went out the door and should be published in an upcoming edition in Knife World soon. Even though it is on the broader topic of early pocketknives, it is related to toenails, of course.
Also, I’m burning the midnight oil, on a big project related to cutlery around the turn of the century. I’m still in the research stage now, but hope to have it to Knife World by the end of August.
I don’t want to give all the details away, but will share this much with you. You know I am a modern-day Commercial Traveler (commonly referred to as a traveling salesman, or road warrior), so I have an intense interest in life as a traveling cutlery salesman (sometimes called Drummers) around the time of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
If you don’t know, many of the founders of early American cutlery companies were at one time traveling cutlery salesmen. As a side note here- my great-grandfather was a traveling salesman (back in the early 1900’s), as was my grandfather and my father, so, “life on the road” goes back in my family at least 4 generations.
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