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Sweet!
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What beautiful knife, Dimitri. I tell ya, those covers aren't coming off.
The cutlery focused background you used in your picture is really nice.
Nicely aged and colored, it fits just right for your knife. Great photograph!
The cutlery focused background you used in your picture is really nice.
Nicely aged and colored, it fits just right for your knife. Great photograph!
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Thanks Joe, they sure won't come off
Regarding the photos those are from the maker, the background is a page from and antique Sheffield knife pattern book!
I wish I could take nice photos like that!
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M.B., that's a fine pruning knife, but you know I appreciate the English paperwork snippet it's sitting on even more.
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Thanks, I figured you would like the ephemera!
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Miller Bro's wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 11:55 pmNice knife, how long is it closed?Hugh_Glass wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:13 pm I put a photo of this up in General Discussion, seems more fitting here.
Any idea about this knife?
Made in France.
It’s about 4 inches long closed up.
Is the nail-nick how you can tell it is French?
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Very interesting to see that they wrote right over the patterns.
That's the first time I remember seeing that in pattern books I have or have seen.
Here is a cut from an old German pattern book showing some unique models.
That's the first time I remember seeing that in pattern books I have or have seen.
Here is a cut from an old German pattern book showing some unique models.
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Very interesting. I have mostly associated the fish knife with Czech firms, and in fact, a Czech firm (Mikov) is pretty much the only company still making them. It is my understanding, that within Eastern Europe, they are traditional as a boy's first knife, and often used for mushroom hunting. I've not seen a German-made one, but I'm sure they exist. I found one on eBay in the shape of a fish, in the form of a bartender's knife (fins formed a cap lifter) with blade and corkscrew, but that's the closest I came up with.
That pistol knife is also odd, as it's something I mostly associate with cheap novelty knives.
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cody6268, great comments, but I should respond outside this pruning thread since I'm taking it off track.
I'll start a new thread called "Figural Knives" for more information.
I'll start a new thread called "Figural Knives" for more information.
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Top to bottom. Thomas Turner, Sword Brand, HSB, Southington
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Nice group, David.
My favorite is the bottom one, I
like the handles.
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David All 4 nice pieces
The Sword brand ,what stamp is on the pile side tang ? Don’t see many of this model with Sword brand from Camillus .
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Thank you JP. It has a four line Camillus tang stamp on the pile side.
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Thank you Sir .
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Another horticultural knife for the thread.
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W Saynor (grafting/budding knife?)