Rick’s knife Americain. Which folder would it be?

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One of my all time favourite movies is Casablanca, and I’m curious what knife Bogart’s character, Rick, is likely to have carried in your opinion. A folder I assume, but which pattern? (I don’t recall seeing a knife in the movie)

An American classic, something to remind him of home, or perhaps a douk-douk which must have been widely available in french Morocco?

I’ll do Gone with the Wind next 😊

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It's been a "few" decades since I saw that movie ... at least three ... maybe four ...
If I recall correctly, Rick was North American born.
Maybe a Pen Knife, or Peanut?
As he was fairly well off financially (lived at an 4 or 5 star hotel, always wearing a tux or suit, consuming expensive adult beverages and puffing on not roll your own cigarettes, and no doubt Cuban cigars) Possibly a fancy (sterling silver, gold, MOP, Ivory, or some other exotic cover/handle material) small "gentleman's" knife, about the size of a Victorinox SD Classic, with the same blades and small scissors, plus fingernail cleaner blade?
I think it was called an "Lobster Knife"?
 
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baxtrom said:
One of my all time favourite movies is Casablanca, and I’m curious what knife Bogart’s character, Rick, is likely to have carried in your opinion. A folder I assume, but which pattern? (I don’t recall seeing a knife in the movie)

An American classic, something to remind him of home, or perhaps a douk-douk which must have been widely available in french Morocco?

I’ll do Gone with the Wind next 😊

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Italian Stiletto. Now the real question is what Bergman carried ?

Don’t much care for Gone with the Wind. How about Pulp Fiction ?
 
I think afishhunter afishhunter nail it! Except Rick had two Smalls and carried whichever one best matched his suit. Either a Sterling Silver or a MOP, both Lobsters. Imagine what Charlie Allnut was carrying as Captain of the African Queen! Which BTW celebrates 70 years this year. I'm hoping it was stainless.
 
ferider said:
Italian Stiletto. Now the real question is what Bergman carried ?

Don’t much care for Gone with the Wind. How about Pulp Fiction ?
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Pulp fiction, somehow I am prejudiced to believe some form of automatics. Or butterfly
 
redsparrow said:
I think afishhunter afishhunter nail it! Except Rick had two Smalls and carried whichever one best matched his suit. Either a Sterling Silver or a MOP, both Lobsters. Imagine what Charlie Allnut was carrying as Captain of the African Queen! Which BTW celebrates 70 years this year. I'm hoping it was stainless.
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Long time since I saw African queen! Perhaps he would have carried a fixed blade?
 
How about Pulp Fiction ?

Butch: Buck 110
Vincent: Case Doctors pattern Ebony
Jules: Leverletto Ivory
Mia: Benchmade Balisong 51
Marcellus: Darell Ralph MaddMaxx
 
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Remember that Rick was run out of Paris by the Germans. He made a point of opening and drinking the best wine/champane on hand rather than let it fall into German hands. I see him with a Lagioule of some type, with a corkscrew. Or being a practical man, he may have just had a cheap Douk-Douk for the local market.

He wouldn't need much knife for serious things, thats what he carried the Colt 1903 pocket model for that he used on Major Strasser.
 
I tend to agree with the small exclusive pen knife folder theory rather than the stiletto automatic ditto, Rick’s cynical, not sinister! So maybe a small pen knife type folder, mother of pearl or tortoise shell scales?

afishhunter said:
It's been a "few" decades since I saw that movie ... at least three ... maybe four ...
If I recall correctly, Rick was North American born.
Maybe a Pen Knife, or Peanut?
As he was fairly well off financially (lived at an 4 or 5 star hotel, always wearing a tux or suit, consuming expensive adult beverages and puffing on not roll your own cigarettes, and no doubt Cuban cigars) Possibly a fancy (sterling silver, gold, MOP, Ivory, or some other exotic cover/handle material) small "gentleman's" knife, about the size of a Victorinox SD Classic, with the same blades and small scissors, plus fingernail cleaner blade?
I think it was called an "Lobster Knife"?
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redsparrow said:
I think afishhunter afishhunter nail it! Except Rick had two Smalls and carried whichever one best matched his suit. Either a Sterling Silver or a MOP, both Lobsters. Imagine what Charlie Allnut was carrying as Captain of the African Queen! Which BTW celebrates 70 years this year. I'm hoping it was stainless.
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jackknife said:
Remember that Rick was run out of Paris by the Germans. He made a point of opening and drinking the best wine/champane on hand rather than let it fall into German hands. I see him with a Lagioule of some type, with a corkscrew. Or being a practical man, he may have just had a cheap Douk-Douk for the local market.

He wouldn't need much knife for serious things, thats what he carried the Colt 1903 pocket model for that he used on Major Strasser.
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oldmanwilly said:
He was in Morocco, a French colony, so quite possible he had an Opinel or Douk Douk in his pocket. Maybe a pearl handled folder on a watch chain.
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GaiusJulius said:
Norfolk or senator style penknife. Discreet, highly practical for opening packages and letters, and won’t wear a hole in the pockets of a good suit.
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