"Old Knives"

A little more research caused me to stumble across what I believe is an older version of my knife.

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So it does appear to be the synthetic stag that LF&C used for quite a while across many of their lines. Without a better tang stamp reference I have to assume that mine is towards the tail end of their production, which ended in the mid-1960s. The pins are all hammered, but that seems to be LF&C's chosen construction throughout so it doesn't help dating the knife. Note the tang stamp of "LF&C USA" and the pattern number on the back of the master in the above photo. The pattern number is absent from my example and the tang stamp seems to be a newer "NEW BRITAIN CONN." stamp instead. I wasn't able to find a shot of the other side, but mine has a fairly odd low (1/8" off the spine, rises slightly from tang to middle of blade) swedge on the pen blade while the master has a more typical shallow swedge which you can see (if you squint) on the pictured knife.

For a smaller, slimmer pen knife, this thing seems pretty well-built and the full blades are begging to be used. This will make an excellent addition to my EDC rotation.
 
Jolipapa said:
Catalogue Cognet 1920
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From 1917 to 1922 in Russia there was a civil war. With 1914 came the First World War. It was not until the supply of folding knives. That's Finnish knives were supplied in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the old Finnish knives you can find. French - no.
 
Some better photos of the fauxstag LF&C. No half stops but both blades snap surprisingly strongly for such a slim knife and blade stock. You can see the weird swedging on the pen blade in the first pic:





I feel silly posting this in the old knives thread considering the knife might not even be 50 years old...
 
Rostovsky said:
From 1917 to 1922 in Russia there was a civil war. With 1914 came the First World War. It was not until the supply of folding knives. That's Finnish knives were supplied in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the old Finnish knives you can find. French - no.
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So this would be a fake?:eek: I would not bet on that.
 
Hardly a fake. Maybe the French put in any other sense. But after the civil war in Russia, the iron curtain fell. Free circulation of goods across the border ceased. Here there is a mention about American folding knives during the second world war on lend-lease to the USSR was supplied by American technology, where the sets of special clothes and tools were American folding knives. A little, but it was. And evidence of this is available.About the French knives read for the first time.Sorry if not very clear. It's hard at times with fourteen verbs!
 
The lounge would be a better place to discuss history. I'll just say that precisely because of the civil war, nearly all archives were destroyed in Russia, hence the lack of mention of Thiers (and Sheffield / Solingen as well). Further, most of those who could afford these knives did not stay in Russia. Knives and watches found easily a place in their pockets when they went away.
On another subject, it is the best known secret that trade never ceased after the Revolution, just sometime using tortuous pathes, this time not for knives I agree...
Here the official Cognet site (I underlined) I contacted them to see if they have kept records of their exports.
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Living room - where is it? Since 1914 between France and Russia was Imperial Germany, which fought on two fronts. How to trade knives? In 1917, France and Russia are sworn enemies. France, England, Italy tried to invade Soviet Russia and were defeated by the Red Army. Where is the trade knives? Only trophies
 
I owe a lot of additions to this thread :o For now, I thought some of you might be interested to see this Joseph Rodgers Jack, which I picked up in Sheffield last week :thumbup:















 
Wow - even in it's well used but well-cared-for state, your Joseph Rogers is a fine looking knife, Jack!
 
:thumbup: I love all the stampings, Jack. I've never seen the "to strike fire" stamp before. Very, very cool!
 
Thanks a lot for the kind comments folks, I've only seen the 'To Strike Fire' stamp on photographs before, sometimes they used 'Guaranteed To Strike Fire' :thumbup:
 
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