“Cutino Quality” is etched on the blade. The “C-T-NO Quality” etching was used on some knives. According to the Kansas City library, Edmund D. Cutino was listed in the city directory from 1914 to 1923, operating a drug and sundry company.
The Cutino Sundry Company became the Cutino Company on January 1, 1922. They were at 7th and Wyandotte Street in Kansas City. On January 1, 1922, they purchased the entire stock of cutlery from the Pape-Thiebes Cutlery Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
Cutino carried imported, as well as a complete line of domestic cutlery products. In 1935, the Cutino Company was at 807 Wyandotte Street, and Roy McKnight was president of the firm.
c 1922-1935