PLEASE POST YOUR TRADITIONAL GERMAN FIXED BLADES & POCKET KNIVES,

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Don't let the "English Steel" stamp and American patriotic etching ("The Patriots Self Defender") fool you. This knife was made in Solingen, Germany, most likely around 1880, by A. Feist & Co. A couple years ago in a different thread, I asked Jack Black Jack Black about an almost identical example featuring the company's name next to "English Steel," and he suggested a straightforward interpretation for the latter phrase. As I've learned, however, this was actually one of A. Feist's trademarks, stamped on their own blades presumably for the American market. It's listed as such in Blade's guide to knives & their values (pp. 60-61), together with "Lunawerk." Said publication also mentions this phrase, together with others such as "Warranted Steel," as often indicating "a knife made in Germany or Austria-Hungary, mainly before 1891, for export to the United States" (p. 32) when no place name is stamped on the blade.
 
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