Left-handed Vintage Knives

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This one came in the mail yesterday and caught my attention. I've had only one other vintage knife like it.

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It's a leftie! Ulster one-blade stockman florist knife with FTD advertising.

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I've had only one other left-handed vintage knife, a Canton picture knife where both blades were made for left-handed opening.

Not counting multiblades where the secondary blades are left-handed, but the master blade is right-handed, how many true left-handed vintage knives have you encountered?
 
Many WW2 and post WW2 British Army clasp knives have the nail-nick of the blade on the reverse (with a tin Opener blade in front). The Belgian Navy Knives, from the 1950's all have this set-up, and the British NAAFI knives from the 50's (single or 2 blade) are left-handed.

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I had a couple of custom left hand slipjoints, true mirror image. I could never get accustomed to them. A seemingly good idea gone bad 🤣
 
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