In 1881, the company incorporated as the Bryan Brown Shoe Company. In its first year, 1878, the company had sales of $110,000. Brown paid five skilled shoemakers from Rochester, New York, to come to St. Bryan and Jerome Desnoyers, Brown founded Bryan, Brown and Company to make women's shoes. After working for four years in his brother's wholesale business, Brown had accumulated enough capital to test his idea. Louis than in the established East Coast factories. Brown believed that shoes could be made more cheaply in St. Skilled workers in New England factories made shoes that were then shipped to jobbers at points west. At that time, shoes were primarily manufactured on the East Coast. While working as a traveling salesman, Brown came to see great potential in the St. Louis from New York in 1873 to work in his older brother's wholesale shoe business. Here's another piece from their own (Brown Shoe Co.) website on their history:īrown Shoe Company began as a shoe manufacturing concern. (The name "Buster" came either directly or indirectly from the popularity of Buster Keaton, then a child actor in vaudeville.)" This mischievous young boy was loosely based on a boy near Outcault's home in Flushing, New York. I'm "thinking" that my knife DOES say :"02", representing the year that the Buster Brown cartoon character was started ( From Wikipedia - "Buster Brown was a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault who was known for his association with the Brown Shoe Company. The year 1902 was an important date to them, based on several references. I've done a little bit of research on the 'net and found multiple references to the Brown Shoe company's origins and history. I can, if necessary, take pics and upload them here, though I doubt I could get a close-enough pic of the lettering, but perhaps. I've seen some auctions, when the blades have been "polished up," where this has sold for upwards of $150-$175 - but I've not seen those letters close up to recognize what they might indicate.
There is a tiny piece missing of the exterior bone (?) mat'l just below the center rivet on the front side below the logo. Might be "CR?02" "CR?E02 or OZ"? The blades are dull gray and stained but otherwise in fine condition. It's those unknown letters where I placed the Xs that are puzzling. On the main blade, when opened, stamped very near the base it says "Brown "XXXXXX" and then St.
It has 4 blades and the bail attached and has xln't "snap" as I've just learned what that means - lol. The narrow metal logo plate is pointed on both ends, as opposed to rounded as I've seen on some. I'm looking to sell - from my dad's estate - a Buster Brown Shoes (metal logo on one side) pocket knife, about 3.5" long when closed.
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