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Combination Boning Knife and Cleaver Set

dick_tracy1953dick_tracy1953 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
edited March 2008 in Ask the Experts
Does anyone have information about the manufacturer, vintage, and value. The blade on the knife reads: Rostfrei Handarbeit. I was told that the translation from German is: Handworked Stainless Steel.

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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Damn That is NICE. I would think would be great to butcher large game.
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  • dick_tracy1953dick_tracy1953 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does anyone know of a forum that might help me identify this knife set.
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  • Wolf.Wolf. Member Posts: 2,223 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    Are those the only markings on the blades of these pieces, the wild boar and the flower(?)? I can't tell if that's a flower or some other pictograph. Check closely on the knife, the cleaver and the sheath and let us know if you don't mind.

    The German translation you noted is, arguably, pretty much correct.

    Your set looks to me like cutlery sets that were produced in Germany from about 1950 through about the end of the 1960s. Can't promise you that, however.
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  • dick_tracy1953dick_tracy1953 Member Posts: 5 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can find no numbers imprinted on any surface of either of the blades. The sheath appears to be unmarked. The smaller etching is that of a five pointed leaf with two crossed swords that have a scalloped top edge to form the tip. The leaf serves as a background. At the base of the leaf there is something else that is small though I have no clue as to what that represents.
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  • rhmc24rhmc24 Member Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right after WW2 thru early '50s Germany's industry had been destroyed and they were trying to get back into production -- of anything. They had a long time reputation for great cutlery and it didn't take much equipment to make it. They produced great knives and such at then dirt-cheap prices. In 1948 I bought a number of great pieces in little shops and still have some of them. Early stainless steel "rostfrei" looks great but doesn't take or hold an edge well. In recent years stainless blades are greatly improved. If you are unable to ID the maker, guess is yours may be one of early postwar period and have more value as a collection piece than utilitarian. Hope this helps.
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