The now & again, and seemingly unpopular, Lady Leg pocketknife...

PocketKnifeJimmy

PocketKnifeJimmy

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Starting up this thread as one of those every now and again Lady Leg knife sharing moments.
I will start it off with the only three I have within my collection.
The first one pictured was made in China under the Rough Rider brand name.
The second one is an American specimen made by the GEC company under their Tidioute brand.
And the third one was manufactured in Solingen, Germany by the Friedrich Olbertz factory. It was contracted to them by the infamous James Parker, using one of the old American trade names that he had the rights for at the time of it's manufacture, (circa 2000).
I don't know if the scales on it are bone made to look like stag, or actual stag. If it's bone, they sure did a great job of making it look like genuine stag :)
 
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i always wanted to get one of these,then forgot about them because there are so many different knives i want...

i'll get one for my wife,she's french and got nice legs too

edit: do you know about the origin of the design?
is it a typical french thing?
 
Has anyone ever tried to open a bottle of beer with the heel? I did, and it chewed up the metal of the knife... and it was my first beer.
 
I have one of these from my great grandmother, must be close to 100 years old. Bakelite - original form of plastic.
These things worth much? Is there a collector's market for them?!
 
I just never could "like" those knives... they are sort of cheesy looking to me... reminds me of the lamp in "A Christmas Story"..... o_O

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GAGL said:
i always wanted to get one of these,then forgot about them because there are so many different knives i want...

i'll get one for my wife,she's french and got nice legs too

edit: do you know about the origin of the design?
is it a typical french thing?
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I have no idea of their original starting point, but I do know that it's definitely an over 100 year old pattern. I imagine that during it's beginning it was likely considered just as it may be looked at today, a functional knife with a fun tongue-in-cheek novelty twist to it.
Also, it may have been considered a wee-bit naughty/risqué in it's day. Just a fun based item, with no true harm or foul stigma to them.
Here's a blurry picture of a 1908 knife ad, (or maybe a catalog page), that showed some Lady Leg knives. So, they definitely have some history to them...


Somewhere along the line, some of them may have been purposely designed in shoe area for handling bottle cap removal, but not all were. As one can see from the ones in the above photo, these did not have enough of a proper contouring for such a task. So, some may have been made to handle that cap removal task, while others were strictly pocket knives with a fun figural look about them. There may have also been some that were only designed as a figural leg knife, (without bottle cap removal ability in mind), but that could maybe do so in a pinch. In any case, my guess is that they probably started out as being a figural only pocket knife, that later gained in some being made to handle the cap lifter role as well.
 
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nice!

now somebody needs to make one of a really big "body positive" leg,to be more inclusive.
make it a dlc coated tanto blade with a wave opener
 
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