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Share your French traditional/regional pocket knives

Time to take the Bulldog for a walk! :D
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Thank you Will. The knife come from my Ma's GrandFather, he or his parents came to St Denis near Paris from Aurillac and brought the knife, the other tool is from her Father.

Original Fishtail by Lacroix, painted metal handles.

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I think I have a Lacroix kitchen knife out in the garage. I tried researching it and came up with only a mountain pass or something like that.
Interesting some of the queues are fiddle shaped and some straight; I even one of each in my two sabots.
 
You find them on the bay. On all the spring is 9 and the half stop is very useful!
It looks like that (not mine :oops:)
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Traditional French pattern(Laguiole), made in Japan(Moki), for an American company(Spyderco) ;)

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Sorry for the gratuitous T-bone pic, the only one I have without a modern folder in it as well.

~Chip
 
Today I (re)discovered this long forgotten Manufrance catalogue dating 1980. A bit of explanation, Manufrance in St Etienne was a HUGE factory and mail shop, where everything - and more - was available.
Every year in the villages the 850+ new catalogue was eagerly awaited, then the parcel following the order! :)
They did of course not manufacture all by themselves, in this rendition (la Manu as we used to call it was already on a slippery slope) there's only one page of knives, mostly made in Thiers and around (Fiskars was already pointing the nos!). Some patterns still exist.
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Prices are reasonable, I remember that in 1980 I earned #4000Fr a month and that was very correct for a living.
 
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Interesting that old mail order catalogue JP, like the B knife, the auto in Stag, sort of thing a Belmondo type character might've been carrying :cool::D
 
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