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Joelin

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Hi there. Looking in the boxes my grandpa left, I found this dagger/letteropener. Does anybody knows anything about it? It appears to be Solingen eye brand. It's Made of bronze
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Hi there. Looking in the boxes my grandpa left, I found this dagger/letteropener. Does anybody knows anything about it? It appears to be Solingen eye brand. It's Made of bronze
29064414_288430801691000_8314427625138432018_o.jpg
 
Welcome. What do you want to know. Please be aware that we cannot give you an estimate of value.

Eye Brand/German Eye/Carl Schlieper made (and may very well still make) very nice knives. Own a Eye Brand trapper myself. Great knife.
 
Hey, thanks for asking. Well, if an estimated valued cannot be given, At last I'd like to know something about its quality, and about the company. Google didn't help very much :( It says C Schlieper Solingen Germany, and has the eye... Do u know if the company stopped its production? Wiki says they did in 1992, but I'm not really sure...
 
Sorry friend, you're in the wrong place for your questions. This is a forum for Benchmade enthusiasts and the products the company produces.
 
I don't know anything about the company, but I can tell you the handle is brass not bronze.
I think bronze has copper added to it , not positive but I can definitely recognize brass.
Well brass color anyways as this could be brass plated.
 
Carl Schlieper made good knives. Now knives with the Eye Brand are made by Olbertz in Solingen. I do not know when Olbertz started this. My guess is that your knife is pre-Olbertz. Can you get better close up pictures of the tang stamp, in focus and without using a flash?

Hickory n steel said:
I don't know anything about the company, but I can tell you the handle is brass not bronze.
I think bronze has copper added to it , not positive but I can definitely recognize brass.
Well brass color anyways as this could be brass plated.
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Both brass and bronze are copper alloys. Brass is usually just copper with some zinc (up to 30% zinc for some brass alloys, such as shell casing brass). Bronze can have some zinc, but the primary alloying agent is tin. Handles like this are most likely brass.

Brass can look very similar to bronze, especially if the bronze has much zinc. Low zinc bronze usually has a reddish cast when polished bright, and brass is usually more yellow. And, of course, there are modern bronze alloys that have no tin at all, but use silicon or aluminum instead. Silicon bronzes are more reddish, aluminum bronzes are more yellow.

To give you an idea of how they can look similar, US one cent coins from 1864-1962 are bronze (with the exception of the 1943 zinc-plated steel, and 1944-1946 brass), from 1962 to 1982 they are brass, and starting in 1982 they were changed to copper plated zinc.
 
This is General Knife Discussion forum. It is not for Benchmade and has nothing to do with Benchmade.
 
Joelin said:
Hi there. Looking in the boxes my grandpa left, I found this dagger/letteropener. Does anybody knows anything about it? It appears to be Solingen eye brand. It's Made of bronze
29064414_288430801691000_8314427625138432018_o.jpg
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Might the handle be brass instead of bronze?
 
tim37a said:
This is General Knife Discussion forum. It is not for Benchmade and has nothing to do with Benchmade.
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This was originally posted in the Benchmade subforum, and it was moved to GKD.
 
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