The corkscrew was used to open perfume & medicine bottles. Before the advent of screw top caps most glass bottles used corks to seal them. The mustache comb and the button hook(used for both gloves and shoes)would date this to around the 1890's when both were popular. The tabs on top of the small blades were common to a lot of English knives but were used in other countries as well.
Here are two of mine;sadly not in the greatest of shape.
Rather & Co. Gunstock whittler?
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knife7knut
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Re: Rather & Co. Gunstock whittler?
I recently picked this Rather & Co knife up. Might be jigged 2nd cut stag or bone.
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Re: Rather & Co. Gunstock whittler?
Nice find! Really unusual handle covers, I’m guessing jigged bone but not sure. 
Thanks for showing it. 
Ken
Thanks for showing it. Ken
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Re: Rather & Co. Gunstock whittler?
I have owned C.F. Kayser knives (Germany) with the same shadow gunstock pattern as the O.P. knife, so i think it is of German origin. The multiblade with grooming tools is similar to knives i have seen marked "Nixdorf" which is now in Austria but was part of Germany over 100 years ago.
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