Their knives are available on, owned by Advantage-Advertising, LLC. Barlow-Norwood sells only through promotional products distributors, like Advantage-Advertising, LLC. Norwood has kept the Barlow line in tact, but is gradually using their “Norwood” logo in place of the “Barlow” logo. About 2005, Barlow was bought by promotional product giant, Norwood. In 2003, Barlow stopped giving their products a Lifetime Warranty. The Barlow Company, which made pocketknives, among other quality gift ideas, started about 1930 in the United States. In the Sheffield suburb of Stannington, Barlow Bros. The original Barlow, after whom the knives are named, was working in Sheffield at the same time as Luke Furnace.An 1823 directory of Sheffield, England cutlers (knife makers) shows Samuel Barlow on Neepsend (Street). Luke Furnace’s name occurs in the Sheffield directories from 17, but not in the 1797 directory, so he was presumably dead by then. Another source says the barlow knife was also made by Luke Furnace of Stannington, which in the eighteenth century was a small village on the outskirts of Sheffield. (2) Obadiah’s grandson, John Barlow, joined the business around 1745 and it was he who was chiefly responsible for developing the exportation of the Barlow knives to America. Johnson (1) the Barlow knife was probably first manufactured by Obadiah Barlow at Sheffield, England, around 1670. At least four American Barlow families have claimed that they invented the barlow knife. The history of the barlow knife has been difficult to trace.
There was empty dry-goods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching – a mighty ornery lot.” They had white domestic awnings in front, and the country-people hitched their horses to the awning-posts. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a “sure-enough” Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that – though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury, is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.” “Mary gave him a bran-new “Barlow” knife worth twelve and a half cents and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. Mark Twain wrote about the barlow knife in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer… At least one song was written about the barlow knife. Barlows have long been gifts, treasured by young American boys. Mark Twain referred to a “real Barlow” in his Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in 1876. George Washington was known to have a barlow knife. Even though the first barlow knife was made in Sheffield England in the 1600’s, it was made by several American shops soon after, and has become just as American as “apple pie”. A barlow style knife has one or two blades, a huge metal bolster, and a comfortable tear-drop shaped handle. The blade or blades are attached at the small end of the handle.
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