Featured Triton through a B gold mark. Recognize it?

My $8 find. Sold as gold filled but tests solidly as 14k. I thought I was buying filled until I was picturing and found the mark. Whoop whoop. Would this be old enough to be antique? I see similars listed that way but I don’t want to follow the leader. I’m hoping someone may recognize the mark.
Thank you for any help.

 

don't know the mark.....
nice that it's 14k..
can i see the blade for any marks?
and a side shot to see if the gold is laid down on a metal inner frame..

 

I cannot open the blades for love or money I might soak it is some wd-40 Here are more pics

 

Finally got it open ?XL George Woctenholm Shefflield England

 

good shots...but still unsure, although i think the gold id formed over a metal housing...
with wear is can foul the blade from opening...
just my thoughts..

 

Wonder why mine is woCtenholm and the rest are marked woStenholm

 

cool....that may help date the knife !!

 

cuz you're special....????

I dunno...

 

@komokwa I think this is what you are referring to '

 

Special Ed? lmao

 

yup, a solid gold cover , over a steel knife frame...

I've a silver one like that...

The gold is too soft to make a folding knife frame by itself..

 

I think yours does say WOSTENHOLM, if you look closely you can see where the center curve of the S has worn off ... Joy.

 

Nahh, you've been finding some nice items lately...... good on ya pal !!

 

Just what I was about to say. The line connecting the 2 curves would have been quite fine; it just wasn't impressed deeply enough to last.

Persnicketiness: It's a trident, not a triton.

 

now this is a Triton.......& I can hit it a mile !!!!

 

Great word for the day!

 

I did not know this brand and was curious and googled for a while. I found the articles below. nice to read I think. especially this part.

...Following the conference of the Gold Knife Manufacturers called by the committee of the National Jewelers Board of Trade, for the purpose of discussing and establishing some basis of standard in the construction and stamping of gold knives, the following resolution was tentatively adopted:

"A knife stamped with a mark indicating the karat fineness such as 10K. 14K, is improperly marked if between the skeleton and the gold sheet and metal, solder or composition is inserted by any method whatsoever unless that inserted part is of the same karat fineness, to wit: 10K 14K or 18K.

"The trade cannot protect the consumer to the extent of indicating how thick the gold is, or how much gold is used.

"We agree, however, that all parts which appear to be gold must be of the karat fineness indicated. Furthermore, we believe that the consumer has the right to assume that a base metal sheet, solder or other composition inserted under a gold sheet is gold of the karat mark on the gold if the gold sheet covers the edges of the insedted part.

"Our decision is to the same effect even if the base metal sheet is affixed to the skeleton or movement instead of the gold. A knife made of a gold sheet and a stiffening of base metal may well be a legitimate article of trade, but the mark indicating the karat fineness is improper unless the fineness of the gold and the stiffening or inserted part is up to the karat indicated."

Source: The American Cutler - February 1922
source: https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53028



I have no idea if this brand is in high demand and therefore can be faked... what strikes me is, that the letter "L" from "1-XL" and "N" from wostenholm has a different format than what I see.
Am I imagining or do you also see the differences?

http://strazors.com/index.php?id=15
https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?t=24049

 

Tired of scrolling up & down.

Do you mean a different typeface? Company seems to have used various. Also I.XL, I*XL, & one with the dot halfway up the height of the letters. Also see serif & sans serif type used. I wouldn't worry about slight differences.

 

now that I see the letters enlarged they all seem different. the O, E, T, N, X ... it is as if they were hammered in or notched one by one. But perhaps youre right about the differences....as i said above I didn't know this brand until today

 

I knew that didn’t seem right. I asked my husband and that’s what he told me. Foiled again. Lol