Old Böker

[Haebbie]

Ok, you ar right. Solingen is just in front of my door and I wonna ask you anythig aboout a solingen knife. It's crazy, isn't it? But I asked in Solingen and got a few satisfying answer, I asked in a german Knife Forum and got no answer. Now I hope, an it will not be the fist time, that I get detailed answers in an American Forum. But let me come to the Point.

A Time ago I bought a Böker knife. This one:



May be, that such a knife was selled in America too. The blade ist made of carbon steel, the handle ist bakelite. (The blade looks better than the picure shows)

Does anybody knows how old the knife is? What's the name of the knife? What was the Price?

Also: the Knife has a left hand sheet. Does Böker sell his knifes at that time regularly with right- and left hand sheets?

I would be pleased about answers, and I hope confidently to get more Information than I got in Solingen ("the knife woud be older than 30 or 40 years because it is no longer in Production").

Best regards,
Herbert

 

[Haebbie]

I just had a more accurate loock at the old Böker Knive - not only through my glasses, at this time I used a magnifier, and I saw more details:

The knive ist not a Böker, ist ist a Boker. And the blade is marked with Solingen and not with Solingen Germany.

Then I took my tools and demounted the knive. What I found was a lot of rust and an assambling bolt with inch-winding (I hope you unterstand my horrible school English). Such a winding is not used in Germany. So I think, the knive was made in America.

I took some more pictures, may be that they help?



Best regards,
Herbert

 

[mete]

Inch-winding = English thread [as opposed to metric thread]. Sheath not sheet .As I understand , the Boker company changed ownership a number of times over the years. I asked about a pair of Boker pruning shears [~50 years old] and got no answer. It may be difficult to find information.

 

[Haebbie]

mete,

many thanks for your Answer!

I try to lern the terms (I just had a look what sheet means), a german proverb is: I'll write them behind my ears.

It's a pity that the History of Boker knives ist poorly documented. It ist also nearly impossible to get informations in germany then in the USA. The older Documents were lost in the war, an after the war they didn't document what they do. I can't beleve, that nobody knows in the Böker Company, what kind of knives they produced until in the sixties. But that's the fact. What a shame.

Best regards from Berlin,
Herbert