Strange Lamson Kitchen knives

[ichor]

I'm familiar with the beautiful forged, rosewood handled kitchen knives, made by Lamson, as I own several and gave my professional chef daughter a set within the last couple of years. That said:

At the local auction I picked up a couple of Lamson made knives that are different and....um....weird. They are your typical 8" slicing blade....stainless...marked "Lamson Stainless Steel".....then "10S82-8". They are also marked with the "NSF" stamp certifying them for professional kitchen use. Under that is "1280" Have very nicely shaped, ergonomic, aqua colored handles. Nothing that strange so far, right.

There is a metal rod that starts at the "guard" and goes to the pommel of the handle, that is, in effect, like a "knuckle duster" on an old WW! trench knive. I wish I could post a photo, because I can't imagine what this would do for a kitchen knife except....be in the way. Really.....they look like small, lightweight versions of Chinese Butterfy swords. http://www.kriscutlery.com/Kris/chinese/butterfly.html

Obviously they don't have the curved portion on the top of the knife, but if you turned the knuckle duster portion of these swords into a very symetrical, rectangualar aluminum rod, you would know what these knives look like.

Never seen anything like these knives......comments.....anyone?

 

[mete]

I would imagine that they are used by a butcher where speed is important.High volume butchering has created some strange tools such as the Case poultry shears I have which have 3/16" diameter balls at the ends of the blades so you don't puncture the skin. They also use chain mail aprons and gloves .All that permits faster work by less skilled workers.