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help to ID - folding fruit knife
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:34 pm
by tnjohn
anyone seen this 4" folding - pin lock knife ... no name or marking ... JPG file attached ... thanks, JOHN
Re: help to ID - folding fruit knife
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:52 pm
by danno50
tnjohn, that is a "folding specialized pocket instrument" (description by Miller Bro's). This link below will take you to a pic of one I posted sometime ago, the post below is Miller Bro's reply to what it is. One of the blades on yours is similar to mine, but the other is different.
Dan
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=13578&p=336044&hil ... el#p336044
Re: help to ID - folding fruit knife
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:11 pm
by RobesonsRme.com
They are folding surgical instruments.
Each blade had a specialized purpose.
Look at Levine's Guide, page 299.
Charlie Noyes
Re: help to ID - folding fruit knife
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:36 am
by schmoozer
It is called a "Bistourie", a civil-war era folding scalpel. Just sold one on eBay not too long ago.
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/w1600/pic ... calpel.jpg