The Case Cutlery Dynasty: Test XX

by Lockwood, Brad

• ISBN13: 9781574324631
• ISBN10: 1574324632
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-15
• Publisher: Collector Books

Summary

The Case Cutlery Dynasty: Tested XX is the extraordinary story of Americas oldest and largest family of knife makers. Since the Civil War, four generations of relations have started over 30 cutlery companies, creating some of the most collected knives in the world. Their products are as rugged as the masters who made them. The Case family was, and remains, a melting pot of personalitiessome as wild as the West they helped to settle. The book is written by a Case descendant, Brad Lockwood, who is an award-winning author of four books and was raised in Little Valley, New Yorkonce known as The Village of Knives. Covering 140 years of artisans in business, all related by blood but fiercely competitive, The Case Cutlery Dynasty shows how history becomes mythology over time, money is sometimes thicker than blood, and how a single family from humble beginnings came to dominate an important American industry.

Table of Contents

Anatomy of a Case Knife	6	(1)
Job's Offspring	7	(1)
Case Cutlery Offspring	8	(1)
Grandma Jo	9	(8)
The Village of Knives	17	(6)
Knights of the Grip	23	(9)
Huck's Case-Knife	32	(13)
The In-Laws	45	(8)
Black Salts and Waterpower	53	(10)
Hephaistos and Missing Links	63	(11)
In Her Memory	74	(20)
One to Call Their Own	94	(7)
A Smaller Hell	101	(9)
Better Than Riches	110	(20)
Industry Plagues	130	(12)
Bad Smelling Banks	142	(12)
Eight Revolvers	154	(7)
"I AM NOT"	161	(6)
It Seems Like Bankruptcy	167	(9)
The Greater Battle	176	(5)
The "s" in Sons	181	(7)
Easter Morn	188	(7)
Desperate Reunions	195	(6)
The Heights	201	(9)
Fair Oak Revisited	210	(8)
Disturbance at Post 531	218	(10)
Cutlery University	228	(10)
Passing the Torch	238	(8)
Gone to Race Horses	246	(8)
One for the Ages	254	(6)
Outside Influences	260	(8)
Orphaned	268	(10)
The Tale of Two Owners	278	(8)
Tools or Jewels?	286	(12)
The Magic Circle	298	(8)
Photo Credits	306	(4)
Bibliography	310	(4)
Index	314	(6)
About the Author	320