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If Queen/Schatt & Morgan don't bounce back, becoming defunct... What happens?
Well, obviously, no way to know that answer. That said, there are some possible scenerios of which could be likely.
I believe most of us would not want them being totally gone as a US made product.
One possible scenerio would be them coming back in some way, and still under the Daniels family control.
Another could be the Daniels family selling to another American operation, letting someone else give the name brand(s) a wack at succeeding. In that scenerio, my hope would be that GEC would somehow be able to take the brand(s) under their wing (keeping them US made and of high quality).
Then there is the chance the brand simply gets sold off to a firm that will then have them made overseas (which will realistically mean that the brand(s) would be dead to most true collectors of the US Queen product).
Now, whether they go totally under and disappear, or get bought by a firm that will have them made overseas, the collector value of ALL SPECIMENS made by the true Titusville factory, will rise in collector value. Even the last ones made by the Daniels family run Queen Company since 2012 or so, will be representative of a bygone era.
Seeing Camillus, Schrade, Bulldog (which were last made in USA before being sent to Asia manufacturing), and it seems like countless other former US made products, being made in overseas plants, is something I really hope does not happen to the Queen brand(s). Truth is, if Queen can no longer be US made, I hope that their heritage dies right here in the country where they were founded. Maybe I am just too sentimental about the awesome heritage they've had, but I sure would not like to see Queen labled products being sold at the local big box store, in clamshell packaging, and marked as being made anywhere other than the USA.
So, we do not have crystal balls to foretell the future of Queen, but I do think we know that there are very few ways for this to all turn out. Some scenarios seem so much better than others.
Them dying off, IMO, is an awful thing.
Them only surviving as a foreign made product, IMO, would even be worse.
May Queen survive
Well, obviously, no way to know that answer. That said, there are some possible scenerios of which could be likely.
I believe most of us would not want them being totally gone as a US made product.
One possible scenerio would be them coming back in some way, and still under the Daniels family control.
Another could be the Daniels family selling to another American operation, letting someone else give the name brand(s) a wack at succeeding. In that scenerio, my hope would be that GEC would somehow be able to take the brand(s) under their wing (keeping them US made and of high quality).
Then there is the chance the brand simply gets sold off to a firm that will then have them made overseas (which will realistically mean that the brand(s) would be dead to most true collectors of the US Queen product).
Now, whether they go totally under and disappear, or get bought by a firm that will have them made overseas, the collector value of ALL SPECIMENS made by the true Titusville factory, will rise in collector value. Even the last ones made by the Daniels family run Queen Company since 2012 or so, will be representative of a bygone era.
Seeing Camillus, Schrade, Bulldog (which were last made in USA before being sent to Asia manufacturing), and it seems like countless other former US made products, being made in overseas plants, is something I really hope does not happen to the Queen brand(s). Truth is, if Queen can no longer be US made, I hope that their heritage dies right here in the country where they were founded. Maybe I am just too sentimental about the awesome heritage they've had, but I sure would not like to see Queen labled products being sold at the local big box store, in clamshell packaging, and marked as being made anywhere other than the USA.
So, we do not have crystal balls to foretell the future of Queen, but I do think we know that there are very few ways for this to all turn out. Some scenarios seem so much better than others.
Them dying off, IMO, is an awful thing.
Them only surviving as a foreign made product, IMO, would even be worse.
May Queen survive
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