Friodur gewurz muller

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Seany7575

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Hi could anyone help me please? , I went round to my mothers to cut her lawn the other day and while looking for the tool to take the blade off afterwards so I could sharpen it at work I found the title knife. The knife has a white handle with Friodur wrote on the bit just above the handle then in a more fancy type of writing it has gewurzmuller engraved along the blade? I have searched the Internet only to find gewurz muller is two wine companies joined to make a wine. What made this interesting to me is I've been toying with the idea of a straight blade razor for some time so I had seen the friodur blades and was hoping I'd found one I could maybe get restored even though this is a long straight shape but looks as though it isn't , I'm guessing cheese knife maybe with the wine name? . A collegue has suggested to use a dovo blade first for me but any help on the above knife would be much appreciated . Thank you

Sean
 
http://www.gewuerzmueller.com/en

Gewürzmüller is a meat whole seller and as such it wouldn't be unusual to have knives with its name printed on them as advertising gifts or for sale.

I know other German companies in the same business have kitchen and cheese knives or even folding knives with their names on it.
 
Hi thank you for the replies, I noticed the site you mentioned hens but that has two extra e's in the spelling where the wine reference I mentioned did not, although it has been a struggle to find anything with much of an explanation and sorry I forgot to mention in the original post that it is a folding knife.
It defiantly makes sense what you said about it being a advertising knife though , thank you
 
Seany7575 said:
Hi thank you for the replies, I noticed the site you mentioned hens but that has two extra e's in the spelling where the wine reference I mentioned did not, although it has been a struggle to find anything with much of an explanation and sorry I forgot to mention in the original post that it is a folding knife.
It defiantly makes sense what you said about it being a advertising knife though , thank you
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It's not a real extra e.

Ü= UE
ä=ae
And so on.

Since webpage addresses don't support special characters like German Umlaute many companies change them to this alternate way of writing. Some even write their name like this in the English version of their homepage but still use the original characters in the German version.
 
Right ok , that explains it. Thank you jens as this was driving me crazy not being able to find info on the net about it. Thanks for taking the time to help me
 
No problem. My dad works for a company who's most likely one of their suppliers. Not knives though :-( Only the ingredients they use for their meat products. :-)

The whole Umlaute thing is a bit of a pain when doing ancestry research. Old names are usually written with an extra E instead of the 2 dots. Later on they changed to 2 dots and when they moved to America they simply dropped the dots but didn't add the E back or changed an Ä which sounds like the English A to an E for some reason. And that's just for Germans which have almost the same alphabet like English. You wouldn't want to know what was going on with a Polish side branch of my tree. Same guy I found with TZ, Z, T, TS, S or even IE and why not add an ewski ending once in a while? In addition to that there are more variants introduced by the text recognition software. Keeps it interesting :-p
 
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