Traditional French Fry day

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I guess I missed the question on date stamp, as these Chambriards are etched with the year of being made at the end of the handle it is 2013 on this one, they provide a 5 year warranty on their knives and that's an easy way of figuring out if one falls within that time frame.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Now, a little more history on this one, I had contacted the family Chambriard, asking them if they might be making any stag handled folders at some point. First some history of their family;

Cutlery from father to son since the end of the 19th century, Coutellerie CHAMBRIARD embarked on the adventure of "Le Thiers ®" in 1998 with models that stand out for their forged spring heads receiving the emblematic "T" towards the handle.

THE HISTORY OF CHAMBRIARD CUTLERY​
The Chambriard house is an institution of French cutlery.
THE ORIGIN OF THE ACTIVITY​
From the 19th century, the Chambriard family had a forging activity in the vicinity of Thiers. It is in this Thiernoise mountain where the peasants became knife editors as soon as the sun went down that the Chambriard family wove their activity and knew how to develop during several generations
THE DIFFERENT GENERATIONS​
After the first generation, it is the turn of Jules Chambriard, then André Chambraird, Georges and finally the sons - Philippe and Dominique - to develop the business, and the various cutlery activities of the family.

The post-war generations specialized in the manufacture of so-called monobloc table knives. This model was very fashionable after World War II.

In the 1980s, Georges and his wife Marie Jo, while continuing the activity of manufacturer, bought a cutlery store in the city center of Thiers. Currently, the whole family of Georges who work there: 3 generations in the service of beautiful cutlery. At this date, the Chambriard sarl or sas cutlery is developing abroad in order to offer their prestigious knives.

So, I contacted them and Philippe responded fairly quickly and said that they actually had 4 or so folders in stag at the moment and emailed me a couple of photos showing the stag that they had used. I picked the one I now have and he sent it off to his, now retired, dealer with a note on that particular knife that it was to be held for me and to contact me once it arrived and I would purchase it. That was almost 10 years ago now, hard to believe! I've kept in email contact with Philippe over the years, sending some photos of their knives as I have owned a good number of them and he always replied quickly and appreciated the photos. I've been to France once, to Leon to interview a possible service engineer but that was so very long ago, I'd love to go back and make a trip to Thiers and visit some of the shops and makers there and of course, the Chambriard family ;)

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Skyline Drive, wonderful group shot showing a beautiful array of French folders.
Charlie, thanks, and that old carved horn folder was an auction find. And a very interesting knife you showed by Raymond Rosa.
Gary G., nice to see that you brought an old friend back home, beautiful knife.
Just Tom, very cool ad and photo of a boy carving.
Jolipapa, neat Nontron nut artwork.
Blues, nice pictures.

Enclosed is a Laguiole model from the early 1900s marked "Rossignol".
It features a folding corkscrew and spike and has a neat blade stamp showing a parasol and bird as trademarks of Rossignol.

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herder said:
Skyline Drive, wonderful group shot showing a beautiful array of French folders.
Charlie, thanks, and that old carved horn folder was an auction find. And a very interesting knife you showed by Raymond Rosa.
Gary G., nice to see that you brought an old friend back home, beautiful knife.
Just Tom, very cool ad and photo of a boy carving.
Jolipapa, neat Nontron nut artwork.
Blues, nice pictures.

Enclosed is a Laguiole model from the early 1900s marked "Rossignol".
It features a folding corkscrew and spike and has a neat blade stamp showing a parasol and bird as trademarks of Rossignol.

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Nice old Lag! It is an Umbrella as Rossignol was the specialised brand for Laguiole of Parapluie à l'Epreuve (later Thérias group). They rarely show both signs.
Nice old Nelson books too!
 
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At the risk of taking this off topic
I wanna ask, and if y'all say no I'll bow out

But I've always been told that the Texas toothpick pattern is heavily influenced by French knives. And American take on a traditional french pattern

How do y'all feel about that assessment?
 
Different family makes those so I don't know if their other ones do have the date applied? I am always for having a date on about anything I get, really brings home just how long it's been around and sometimes that is amazing!
G2
 
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