Tony asked..."


> Does anyone have any working dates or other info for Henry Boker.  I know
> he was a German ironmonger....."
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  Hermann Boker a recent emigrant from Germany founded Hermann Boker and co.
in 1837 in New York City, soon moving it to Newark NJ,[though they retained
a Sales office in NY] .Prior to this Hermann and his brother Robert had in
1829 started a plant to make swords in Remsschied Germany. When they crossed
the Atlantic Robert went to Canada and later in 1865  he went to Mexico and
opened a branch of H. Boker&co there called Casa Roberto Boker,[still in
business].In 1869 Hermann cousin Heinrich Boeker opened a factory in
Solingen to manufacture items for his cousins in America and Mexico. H.Boker
also imported from England. In 1899 in response to rising tariffs on
imported goods they started a factory in Newark called Valley Forge cutlery
co. where they made both knives and tools.In 1921 this plant was sold and
operations moved to Maple wood NJ . In 1969 Boker was bought out by  Wiss,
[the scissor people].In 1978 Wiss sold the Boker name to the Cooper Tool
group of NC. In 1986 Cooper sold name and all distribution rights to the
Heinrich Boker co. of Solingen Germany.
   Henry Boker? I don't think there was a Henry Boker, Heinrich Boeker did
mark some items exported to Australia,[maybe the USA too?] marked Henry
Boker probably to make them sound less foreign..............I used to sort
of collect Boker Knives by the way and found most of this information in
knife books....Todd