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More about this item when it's founder, Antonio Paolantonio returned from WWI after serving with the United States Calvary as a Black Smith. Antonio began making knives at 9 Calendar Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Antonio called his new company the "A. Paolantonio Cutlery Company." Antonio's first customers were the jewelry industry. Antonio made knife skeletons and sold the skeletons to the jewelry industry where they would place exotic handles on the knives and re-sell the finished knives to high end men's clothing stores. Over the years the business grew and in 1926 Antonio changed the company name to Colonial Knife Company, Inc. World War II broke out and Antonio was asked to serve on the War Production Board in Washington, D.C. where he oversaw the allocation of steel to the cutlery industry and research that lead to the only combat knife to use polymers (plastics) for knife handles that offered Navy corpsman and medics the ability to boil the knife to make it sterile. THIS IS ANOTHER FIND FROM MY MOTHERS HOUSE. WERE SELLING HER THINGS TO PAY HER BILLS. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LOOK. ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK I'LL GIVE YOU THE INFO I HAVE. I ONLY SHIP TO THE LOWER 48 STATES OF THE USA