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by Optimist
Thu Jul 25, 2019 2:34 pm
Forum: Customized Factory Knives
Topic: A personal steak knife
Replies: 3
Views: 2378

A personal steak knife

Have you ever been disatisfied by the steak knife issued in a restaurant? The standard serrated edge that is fine with a good fillet can come to grief when challenged by a tasty but gristly sirloin and I rather like a sirloin. I think I found the answer when a French flea market produced a battered ...
by Optimist
Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:56 pm
Forum: Knife Lore - Traditional Knives From the Old Days
Topic: Old and Obscure Brands
Replies: 1539
Views: 295023

Re: Old and Obscure Brands

This pretty little penknife has silver or german silver side plates showing roses and sunflowers. The wear suggests it must have been much loved and a broken blade has been carefully trimmed. The style suggests German origin to me but the only mark is the word, in capitals, HAKE. I found it in a Fre...
by Optimist
Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:35 am
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: Help to ID a Sheffield pocket knife
Replies: 9
Views: 2684

Re: Help to ID a Sheffield pocket knife

S-K, thank you for that information. I did not know that navy knives all lacked the arrow mark (like the one I had to buy in fact) and I was interested that you could identify the period and pattern 301. May I ask what the source of this information is as I would like to read more on the subject. Th...
by Optimist
Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:51 pm
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates
Replies: 7
Views: 1336

Re: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates

That sounds very interesting - if you have time to put up pictures of those marks, I'd like to see them. No hurry though, it's just my curiosity.
by Optimist
Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:25 am
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates
Replies: 7
Views: 1336

Re: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates

Knife7nut, thank you for those pictures. I have a knife like that, I consider them to be of better quality than the one that I posted - among other things, the can/bottle opener has a nice round rivet that is kinder to the thumb than the bent over opening tab. Mine was a present from my wife on the ...
by Optimist
Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:17 pm
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates
Replies: 7
Views: 1336

Re: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates

Thank you for your welcome and reply Phil. I have a couple of multi-function knives with that style of opener i.e. the same profile and a tab bent sideways to facilitate opening and both are French. During my scouting career (1948-57) the Scout Shop in London had an endless supply of ex army jack kn...
by Optimist
Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:22 pm
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: Help to ID a Sheffield pocket knife
Replies: 9
Views: 2684

Re: Help to ID a Sheffield pocket knife

Here are a few military style knives that span the period of your knife (a very handsome example I must say). Information gathered from a variety of sources involving military history and horse enthusiasts suggests that significant changes took place around 1900. Prior to the Boer Wars, soldiers who...
by Optimist
Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:57 pm
Forum: European-made knives
Topic: A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates
Replies: 7
Views: 1336

A multi-function knife with aluminium side plates

This is a first posting but a friend, on another site, suggested that I post my query here and my brief scan of earlier threads suggested that there are some helpful and knowledgeable people around - so here goes. I found the knife in a French flea market. It had nothing special to recommend it apar...

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