Solingen Cutlery Premium Stock Knife

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Along with other knives I got at an estate sale I found a stockman with dark reddish brown jigged bone handles. Main blade is stamped Premium Stock Knife. Tang is stamped SOLINGEN over CUTLERY over B.SVOB--A over GERMANY. Can't make out the 5th & 6th letters in the third line. Looks like a Scandinavian name to me! I'm thinking maybe Svoboda??? I've never heard of, nor can I find anything on, Solingen Cutlery, but it seems like a pretty likely name for a German Company. Anyone know anything about this company? Vintage? I'm thinking 40s-60s, as it is incribed with the previous owner's name, the same as a 40-64 Case I got at the same sale. A 65-69 Case and other newer vintage knives are not inscribed. Any help is greatly appreciated...
Thanx,
Barry
 
NAFix...

Levine's #4 suggests it's most likely...

B. Svoboda
Liberty Organization ( :confused: ) (Importer?)
Montrose, California
c1950 until at least 1997...maybe still going. It was apparently a wholesale brand, not particularly collectible....according to Mr. Levine. This one is obviously from Germany.

Best I've got.

Bill
 
>"Looks like a Scandinavian name to me! I'm thinking maybe Svoboda??? "

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Svoboda is a very common Czech name. Keep in mind though, since they're neighboring countries, over generations lots of Germans settled in the Czech lands and lots of Czechs settle in the German lands. It's not uncommon to meet a Czech with a German-sounding name. For instance the Czech president's name is Vaclav Klaus.
 
Thanx Bill and mnblade. My Levine's (ordered yesterday) should be getting here next week, so I can just look them up.... seems I'll have to go a way to find an obscure enough maker for it not to be in the guide. And Czechoslovakia has produced its share of knives over the years. One of my currrent favorites is my Mikov stag-handled, 3-blade camp knife with a main auto dagger blade. And going back to the estate knives I picked up, I have an AWISA (again, never heard of) advertising knife with two blades and a corkscrew on back, light cream/gold cracked ice handle with inlaid silver(?) logo and art. Smaller blade is stamped Czechoslovakia, detectable only under magnification. Very cool little knife. In this case I thought AWISA sounded Japanese?so did the seller?sold it to me for a buck. From now on maybe anytime I see a name I don't recognize I should just assume it's Czech!!
Thanx again,
Barry
 
Barry,
There was/is only one big knife company in Czech r. (Mikov) but they also made many knives (blades only) for some German companies over the years.... They would stamp the blade with anything the customer requested.. If you e-mail me the AWISA pictures I might try to find some info.. Someone at Mikov might recognize it...

David
 
El Lobo wrote...

Levine's #4 suggests it's most likely...
B. Svoboda
Liberty Organization ( :confused: ) (Importer?)
Montrose, California
c1950 until at least 1997...maybe still going. It was apparently a wholesale brand, not particularly collectible....according to Mr. Levine. This one is obviously from Germany.
Best I've got.
Bill

Thanx Bill... I've just been going thru my #4 Levine's today for the first time, which I purchased following the advice of you folks on this forum. The $50 for a book marked $27.95 on the cover is worth every cent. For instance, I learned about the different versions and how to date Buck 110s today. And discovered a trashed one that I refurbished for my son (someone had left the poor gouged, chipped thing in his car) is an older Version 3, that I determined from pix and descriptions could only have been made for one year, 1970. Now about this B. Svoboda knife... I haven't quite mastered Levine's organization yet. Is it listed in the list of folding knife makers? Oh hell.... what page is it on??!! OBTW before I posted about the Svoboda, in my searches, I came across the Liberty Organization... seemed hardly the type of outfit that would be importing knives.... all about freedom, liberty, human rights, butterflies and flowers....
Thanx,
Barry
 
NAFix,
It's on page # 77....... :D

Since #4 is out of print, $50 seems to be what the market will pretty easily bear......bet they'll bring more than that on eBay when they're completely sold out... :eek:

As you said, worth every cent.....IMO as well.

Bill
 
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