BERNARD LEVINE'S CUTLERY BIBLIOGRAPHY KNIFE BOOKS [op = out of print] KNIFEMAKERS OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO (Badger Books, 1978) [op] THE KNIFE IDENTIFICATION AND VALUE GUIDE (Knife World, 1981) [op] LEVINE'S GUIDE TO KNIVES AND THEIR VALUES (DBI Books, 1985) [op] CATALOG OF THE ALBERT BLEVINS KNIFE COLLECTION (Schoener, 1988) LEVINE'S GUIDE TO KNIVES..., SECOND EDITION (DBI Books, 1989) [op] LEVINE'S GUIDE TO KNIVES..., THIRD EDITION (DBI Books, 1993) [op] POCKETKNIVES, THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE (Apple 1993/Running 1994) [op] LEVINE'S GUIDE TO KNIVES..., FOURTH EDITION (Krause, 1997) [op - see book page] KNIFEMAKERS OF OLD SAN FRANCISCO, SECOND EDITION (Paladin, 1998) IDENTIFYING POCKETKNIVES (Chartwell, 1998) CUTLERY ARTICLES ANTIQUE TRADER WEEKLY A History of Scissors and Shears California Card Trimmers (19th century casino cutlery) (cover story) No Spoons: A History of Table Knives and Forks (cover story) Remington Pocketknife Advertising Sign (cover story) MUSEUM OF THE FUR TRADE QUARTERLY Lancets on the Frontier (the pioneers' medical instrument) BLADE MAGAZINE (and EDGES) Michael Price, San Francisco Knifemaker (worked 1856-1889) The Workingman's Knife (collecting antique industrial knives) The San Francisco Gun Exchange: Custom Knife Center of the West The Knife Shop Under the Mountain: M. & M. Ferris Knives Not Steel but its Master; The Story of Stellite Knives Collecting Antique Medical Instruments Pocketknife Patents from the Past, 4 parts Review of Pankiewicz's "New England Cutlery" Oregon Knife Collectors Association 1987 Show High-Tech Meets High Art in Custom Folding Knives Ray Appleton Redefines the Folding Knife George Werth, Pattern Master (pattern-welded damascus steel) Harumi Hirayama, Dream Alchemist (Japanese woman art-knife maker) Knife "Family" Mourns Loss of Mel Ferris The Classic Tradition in Custom Knifemaking (Naganori Tsutsumi photos) So You Want To Be a Knifemaker (the business of knifemaking, 2 parts) The Right to Bear Arms: An Editorial Why "Custom" Knifemakers Hate Custom-made knives Knife Primer (3 parts) The Push Dagger, Secret Weapon of the Old West Antique California Style Knives Contemporary California Style Knives Another Angle on Knives (decorative file-work) Randall Knives, the Untold Stories Knives That Will Make You Money Save-The-Day Posters; Remington Bullet Knife Posters by L. W. Duke Antique Folding Bowie Knives Zippo Acquires W. R. Case & Sons Beginner's Guide to Choosing a Knife Profile of C. Houston Price for Cutlery Hall of Fame & Profile of me by C. Houston Price for Cutlery Hall of Fame Trick Opening Pocketknives (2 parts) What to Look for in a Folding Knife Knifemaking Hotbeds: the Knife Industry in Oregon Case Knives: Comeback of a Collectible King (Factory Overview) A Lordly Blade (the Story of the Wharncliffe Knife) Multi-Blades Then & Now (200 Year Old Nowil vs Modern Swiss) History of Gerber Sport Knives (3 parts) 1996 Compilation of all State Switchblade Laws (3 parts) 1996 Compilation of all other State Knife Laws (3 parts) Great Books for Knifemakers (225 Years of How-To Books) Rockwell Hardness Testing History of Marble's Knives of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush The Most Repressive Knife Laws Knife Auctions What to Look for in an Antique Pocketknife The Telltale Signs of a Well-Made Knife Knives of the California Gold Rush Best of the Best: Three Top Antique Folding Knives Knives for the Indian Trade Michael Walker Reinvents the Folding Knife (after the Linerlock) Father & Son in High-Tech Knives - Ray and Ron Appleton Quick Field Guide to Traditional American Pocketknife Patterns Reading the Blade - How to Tell If an Old Knife Has Been Cleaned Files from Knives? The Search Continues A Great Book of Great Knives: Review of Sheffield Exhibition Knives What to Look for in a 21st Century Collectible Knife eBay - The World Wide Web's Marketplace for Knives (2 parts) The Perennially Popular Pill-Buster (Physician's Knife) Knives of Europe - Italy Knives of Europe - Spain ALL ABOUT KNIFE STUFF COLUMN (1999) 1. That Second Edge 2. Scales: Handles and Liners 3. Tangs 4. Time-Line of Knife Materials 5. Romance of the Road - The Old-Time Knife Salesman BLADE MAGAZINE (after absorbing FIGHTING KNIVES Magazine) MILITARY BLADES COLUMN (1997-1998) Military Blades: USMC 1219C2 / USN Mark 2 Combat-Utility Knife of 1943 Military Blades: Model 1917-1918 and Mark 1 Trench Knives Military Blades: M3 Trench Knife of 1942 Military Blades: The Fairbairn Sykes knife Military Blades: the TL-29s Military Blades: Mystery of the Riflemen's Knives Military Blades: Viet Nam SOG Knives (with Frank Trzaska) Military Blades: the USN Mark 1, and earlier sailor knives Military Blades: World War II Handmade Knives FIGHTING KNIVES In the Beginning -- U.S. Marine Corps fighting knives of 1942 1993 Compilation of all State Switchblade Laws Ken Warner's KNIVES annuals (DBI Books) KNIVES 82: The Essence of San Francisco, California's Classic Cutlery KNIVES 83: Collecting Old Knives KNIVES 85: Knives as History KNIVES 86: Honest Knife Bargains You Can Find KNIVES 87: Knives in Museums Not Currently on Display KNIVES 88: Hollow Handle History KNIVES 89: Back to Basics Folding Knives KNIVES 90: When Webster Marble Invented the American Hunting Knife KNIVES 91: Pocketknife Patterns I Like; Why They Don't Make Them Now KNIVES 92: What is a Butcher Knife? KNIVES 93: The Navy Knife of the Great War KNIVES 94: Knives for Young America, 1860-1993 KNIVES 95: excerpt from POCKETKNIVES KNIVES 96: Special Blades for Special Jobs KNIVES 97: The Vagaries of Values (collector and consumer demand) KNIVES 98: The London Hunting Knife Not the Same Old Grind Anymore (CNC grinders) KNIVES 99: Knives Made from Files - Myth versus Reality KNIVES 00: Great Bowie Knives I Have Known Cutlery Offshoots (knife companies that spawned others) KNIVES 01: It's Just a Wedge if It Ain't Got That Edge - Where Sharp Is, and How to Get There Gone But Not Forgotten - Vanished Firms, Discontinued Knives, and the Future of Collecting Ken Warner's KNIVES DIGEST K. D. 1: Making a Market in "Mint" Knives [Limited Edition knives] AQUA-FIELD GUTMANN KNIFE JOURNAL Knife Sharpening Made Easy Vive Opinel (the popular priced French folding knife) The Saracen Blade (Damascus custom knives) Scissors and Shears; an Introduction for the User and Collector Space-Age Knife Handle Materials Francis Boyd and the Swing-Lock Knife Gutmann on Target with Liner Lock Tool-Box knives Bowie Knives (rebuttal to Bart Moore knife) The Explorer LocBlok Knives Are Better Than Ever Bargain Knives for Weekend Shoppers New Approach to Solingen Knives Rockwell Hardness Testing AQUA-FIELD BUCK KNIVES MAGAZINE As American as Apple Pie -- and SwissBuck AQUA-FIELD BOW-HUNTING MAGAZINE Keeping up the Cutting Edge: How and Why of Sharpening KNIFE MAGAZINE (Tokyo) Fred Carter, Master Knifemaker C. Gray Taylor, Perfectionist Knife Art Photos (including June 1987 cover) The Bowie Knife Michael and Patricia Walker, Artistic Team Ray Appleton, Artist of the Machine Shop William Harsey, Knife Sculptor Remington Advertising Sign California Custom Knife Show 1987 Ron Lake, Folding Knife Pioneer Jess Horn, Master Craftsman Mike Michaels and His Wonderful Letter Openers Wayne Goddard, Lifelong Knifemaker Artistic Nudes East and West (Art Nouveau and Shin Hanga knives) Bay Area Knife Collectors Association 1988 Show History of Remington Knives (Cover Story) James Schmidt, Master Bladesmith Oregon Chain Saw Pocketknife Southern California Blades 1989 Show Beautiful Advertising Knives The Two Great West Coast Spring Knife Shows (Eugene OR and Solvang CA) Eric Bergland, Obsidian Knives Robert Lum, Northwest Blade Artist 1990 Oregon Knife Show C. Robbin Hudson, Classic Bladesmith Wayne Valachovic, Damascus of Distinction Harold J. "Kit" Carson, Soldier and Knifemaker Daniel E. Osterman, Splendid Miniature Bowie Knives Roger Keagle, Transpacific Knifemaker (2 parts) William McHenry, Jeweler-Knifemaker GT Knives - New in (almost) Every Way Keith Spencer's AUSTRALIAN CUSTOM KNIFEMAKERS 1991 GUIDE: Understanding the Hand-Made Knife 1992 GUIDE: Reading History in American Knives Keith Spencer's KNIVES AUSTRALIA Vintage Knives for Australia (from W. Jno. Baker's 1924 Catalogue) What About Knife Collecting (pointers for novice collectors) A. G. Russell's THE CUTTING EDGE Quality Travels the World (changing centers of cutlery manufacturing) - Revised version 2000 for A. G. Russell website KNIFE WORLD Every issue since January 1978: monthly 3,500 word (4,500 words since April 1993) "Whut Izzit" feature -- answers to readers' questions about the function, history, and value of unusual old knives. OTHER ARTICLES (* = cover story) * Old American Hunting Knives, 1920-1950 * Old American Hunting Knives, Before 1920 A Folding Cutlass (from the Smithsonian) The Houston, Texas, 1978 Spring Knife and Gun Show * Frary Pocketknives, a Detective Story (Bridgeport CT 1876-1883) How Do You Tell a Good Knife? (humor) * No Spoons (reprinted from Antique Trader Weekly) Review of Bennion's Antique Medical Instruments A Country Thanksgiving (photo essay) Knives in Moby Dick "Whut Izzit" Parody Arctic Knives, a Footnote to History A Weekend Incident (knife law misconstrued, but with a happy ending) The Finck Family Bible (new light on the Old West's leading cutlers) The Case of the Strange Case (a rare circa 1940 Case cattle knife) Gourmet Cutlery (all the knives at the 1982 Gourmet Products Show) The Knifemaker's Daughter (Eva Harris of Warrensburg, Missouri, 1917) Get it at Ellery's (outfitter Wm. Ellery and his 1910 knife design) The Badger by Schrade (a new hunting knife design) The McCall Idaho Knife Show, 1983 The Bay Area Knife Collectors Association (BAKCA) Show, 1983 Review of Minnis's "American Primitive Knives" The Oregon Knife Collectors Association (OKCA) Show, 1984 Knifemaker Profile: William Harsey (Oregon logger, artist, and cutler) BAKCA Show, 1984 Samurai Swords: Protecting your Investment * Michael Bell, Swordsmith (the styles and steel of 14th century Japan) * "Warranted Really Good" (T. Turner's pocketknives for 1820s America) Frederick Kesmodel (Knifemaker of Old S.F. -- and old Baltimore, too) * Old Sailor Knives (from the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts) The California Custom Knife Show, Anaheim, 1986 Preview of the Buck Model 186 Titanium Folding Hunter Changes in Knife Collecting (past, present, and future) The Rarest Military Knife of All (Camillus 3-blade paratrooper's) Southern California Blades 1987 Show * Remington (Joins the Cutlery Industry, 1919-1940) Michael Michaels's Wonderful Letter Openers * Winchester (Assortment Knives, 1933-1942) Knives of the '80s, with William Harsey (parody) BAKCA Show 1987 * Henckels Classics (1914 Hunting Knives) The California Custom Knife Show, Anaheim 1987 Token Tai Kai '87 (Japanese sword exposition) Production Sporting Knives (new 1988-89 factory models) * Frary, Frary, and Labelle (follow-up to 1979 Frary history) * The Battle Creek Bowie (presented by the city's founder c1852) * Busch Knives by Wester (fancy Adolphus Busch/Anheuser-Busch knives) * Baker & Hamilton (leading California hardware and cutlery wholesaler) * Switchblade Legacy (political background of the 1958 Federal ban) Reviews of Case: the First 100 Years and The Antique Bowie Knife Book Fancy Figural Knives by Amicus * Anticipation; a Marshall Wells Hardware Story Remington Pocketknife Sequence of Manufacture Boards * The Silver Knives of William Nowill (fancy Sheffield fruit knives) Richards & Conover Hardware Company (Kansas City pocketknives) * Albert M. Baer (Chairman and CEO of Imperial Schrade) Oak Leaf Pocketknife Sequence Board (E. C. Simmons) * Hudson's Bay Company Pocket Knives * Budding and Grafting Knives An Artifact of the Old West (Furniss Trade Knife found in Utah) * Stainless Cutlery Company: The First Stainless Pocketknives * Thomas Turner in the Twentieth Century GT Knives - New in (almost) Every Way * The Stamped Blade Daniel Boone, Knifemaker (Dee Daniel Boone of Henryetta OK) * Chinese Pocketknives Sales Aids and Cutaways (Point of Purchase Knife Displays) Review of Master of the Forge, biography of William F. Moran Confidential Advice (about a confidence scam) guest editorial Names in Transition (old Knife Trademarks Revived) Ahmed Bux Secret Knife from Bareilly, India Lancets on the Frontier (updated) Aluminum Handled French Multi-Blades Finding 18th Century Pocketknives * Imperial Frame-Handled Pocketknives * Fire from the Sea: the Story of Pearl Handles Mikulasovice - Nixdorf: Bohemian Pocket Cutlery Center New Whut Izzit Parody * Switzerland's Army Knives (real Swiss Army issue pocketknives) Days of the Bowie (1888 retrospective on California bowies of the 1850s) Are Switchblades Next? (federal law and the black market) Western Etched Blades NATIONAL KNIFE MAGAZINE Every issue August 1988 to May 1996, monthly 2,000+ word feature, "Bernard Levine's Knife Lore;" it included history, technology, translations, patents, personalities, recent and current events, the meaning and etymology of knife terms, book and product reviews, historical anecdotes, and personal opinions. OTHER ARTICLES Ron Lake, Folding Knife Pioneer Jess Horn, Master Craftsman James Schmidt, Master Bladesmith Wayne Goddard, Lifetime Knifemaker Secret Knives at the Smithsonian Figural Knives at the Smithsonian Giant Pocketknives at the Smithsonian Strange Patterns at the Smithsonian Knifemakers Guild Show, 1991 The Gambler: Story of a Cargill Knife Wilford & Co. Great Western Works Folding Dirk J. A. Henckels Transparent Demonstrator Knife Marine Corps Pocketknives 50 Years Ago I*XL Advertising Knives Surviving with a Pocketknife (Man Amputates Own Leg) KNIVES ILLUSTRATED The Linerlock - Straight from the Source (Michael Walker interview) California Knives - Then and Now Daniel Searles and the Louisiana Style Schively Knives - Designed by Rezin Bowie The Sheffield Clip-Point Bowie The Push Dagger's Piercing Punch Gold Quartz Knives Figural Knives Virtual Marketplace : Real Knives (knives on the internet) Style Trends in Folding Knives - historical roots of today's styles Style Trends in Fixed Blade Knives - over the past 450 years Where Did They Go to Buy a Knife? - before the internet and the mall The Impact of Innovations on the Cutlery Industry Custom Collaborations - knifemakers designing knives for factories Recycling Schrade - Imperial Schrade Corp. liquidation auction: why it happened, and where everything went Anti-Knife Laws, Past and Present - what, why, and where OTHER CUTLERY WRITING SAVEUR MAGAZINE History of the Steak Knife PI MAGAZINE and CLUES ON LINE When Do You Need a Knife Expert? CUTLERY COLLECTORS LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE "Statement in Opposition to the Petition of the American Cutlery Manu- facturers Association, Investigation Number TA-201-61 Certain Knives." Written testimony before the International Trade Commission, June 1988. [The manufacturers' petition requested an increase in the tariff on imported knives from 5% to 50%. Largely on the basis of this statement, the Commission voted 6-0 to deny the petition.] OREGON KNIFE COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER Every issue from March 1989 to May 1991: Show Chairman's report; intermittently since then: a variety of reports, articles, reprints. PALO ALTO CULTURAL CENTER KNIVES and FORKS ... and SPOONS (exhibition brochure) BOOK INTRODUCTIONS GOINS' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CUTLERY MARKINGS, by John Goins (Knife World) CUSTOM KNIVES (introduction to folding knives section) (Blade Magazine) KNIVES: POINTS OF INTEREST BOOK III, by Jim Weyer (Knife Art Books) BOOK CHAPTERS COUNTERFEITING ANTIQUE KNIVES, by Gerald Witcher (NKCA) (Bowie chapter) BEST OF KNIFE WORLD, VOLs. 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