Can Anyone Identify This?

[Bob Denman]

Here's a bit of the back-story...
A longtime hunting Pal of my Grampa's emigrated from Russia in 1928. He brought this knife along with him.
I haven't been able to make out any of the identifying writing or marks of the blades yet; but I think it might have something to do with the last Russian Czar.
Can anybody give me a better (or more truthful) story to tell about it?

 

[Bob Denman]

More pics...

 

[Michel Droz]

Hello! A german made " souvenir " pocketknife with portraits of famous historical russian personalities. The aluminium ( ? ) scales are quite worn and your photos are a bit fuzzy but the man in the pointy helmet could be Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky and the dude beneath him looks like Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. I cannot read the makers name but it clearly reads " Solingen " on the tang stamp. Have a nice day, Mike.

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks! Sorry for the fuzzy pictures...
I doubt that there's any aluminum on the knife. It feels "wrong" for that.
Silver??? This knife is probably late nineteenth century.

 

[Michel Droz]

Isn´t Wikipedia awesome ? "...discovery of aluminium in 1825 by danish physicst Hans Christian Orsted...industrial production by french chemist Henri Etienne Sainte-Claire in 1856...." etc. Mike.

 

[Bob Denman]

I guess it just feels too... solid for aluminum. I've had knives with aluminum scales, and this one feels heavier.

 

[Michel Droz]

Why do I waste my time ?

 

[Bob Denman]

Time not wasted... I got some names to research, and a Country of manufacture...

 

[Zulus]

Can you post pictures of stamps ?
Big, clear and sharp please
Also pictures of sterling handles hallmarks ?
Thanks

 

[Bob Denman]

I'll to get what I can off of it.

 

[Bob Denman]

This is about as good as my shaky hands can make it
Where would those hallmarks be hidden?

 

[Zulus]

Resolition of pictures is insufficient to see any hallmarks, even they exist
You know - there is no hallmarks on aluminum
Anyway knife isn't Russian, sorry
I found several such knives, all Made in Germany
And what happens to Cyryllic alphabet :^)

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks for the effort...
Here's the rest of what I!was told about the knife.
The Lady who gave it to me said that it was (supposedly) a gift given to guests at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II.
Question: is it even possible for Russian Royalty to outsource something like this to a foreign manufa turer?

 

[Zulus]

Please remember that both Russia and Germany was capitalist Imperias at the time, so not outsourcing
it was just a purchase :^D
No ideology involved

 

[Zulus]

Try Hugo Herwig & Co
as a beginning of new amazing quest

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks a whole bunch!