It´s impossible to analyze the history of the Mora knife industry without mentioning the company Böhlmark & Co. Böhlmark & Co was a wholesale company founded by Erik Böhlmark from Vika. The company was active in Mora from the early 1900s until the 1960s. Erik Persson was born on 20/09/1868 in Vika, a little village just outside Mora. Since the family farm was named Böl, his family, parents, and siblings change the name to Böhlmark. Erik Böhlmark and his wife moved to Mora in 1902 Around 1888/1889, when he was nineteen, got a job in Westerbergh's shop in Morastrand. He stayed there until the owner Herman Westerbergh's dye in 1909. In 1908, Erik Böhlmark started the company Böhlmark & Co In around 1913 Böhlmark & Co. made an exclusive distribution right contract with Frost branded knives. This enabled Erik Frost to fully concentrate all his efforts on the production side of the business and Böhlmark & Co would deal with the marketing a...
Exploring the history & craftsmanship of the iconic Mora knife