ed_is_dead
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Fantastic information Danno! At the very least we have an idea of date now! Weirdly I thought they had by that time moved to Sheffield so I wonder why were they tang stamping Germany...
It will be in my pocket tomorrow and I shall use "Right - O!" liberally in worked_is_dead I too admire your Richartz a finely turned out little knife, in contrast to most of the cheap English made Richards junk
It seems to have a stamped blade, a quality touch found on French & German knives, much less so or, it appears to have gone into abeyance, on English knives. Opens out straight and fine, no 'cant' on it.
Can't help you with the No.123 referencing, is it a pattern or a sequence- one, two, three?
Here's an amusing cutting from a 1925 Guardian article deploring language degradation and the common use of right-O! in everyday speech. This suggests it was a recent introduction and might have its origins in the recent Great War? Or a popular song? Who knows. But I suspect it's near extinct slang now in Britain.
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‘Right-o!’ the new universal expression? From the archive, 10 November 1925
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 10 November 1925: The word of the moment runs its course and is apparently as catching as measleswww.theguardian.com
Thanks for the link, I do remember my parents and older folks using that expression.
As to the number 123 I might have an answer...
What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?
Today with the excellent GEC # 15 in 440C.;):thumbsup: That's a fine picture. José. Well done, Harvey, Well done, indeed. Peanut of the Week is a brown delrin stainless Case (my first Case ever, won in the first BF GAW I ever entered - thanks, Cory) Stainless and Delrin are surely...
