All About Pocket Knives

I'm in the early stages of collecting silver folding fruit knives. Recently I acquired a silver folding fruit knife with three hallmarks. The middle one seems clearly to be the Birmingham anchor assay symbol. The first hallmark at first glance seems to be the duty mark of Queen Victoria--except, the...

Thanks very much, TwoFlowersLuggage, for your information on silver Victorian knives. As it turns out, I dropped by a local jeweler's this yesterday and had him take a look at the knife. He said he believed it (or at least the blade) was silver. Thanks for sending that link--great information! So, i...

Thanks, TwoFlowersLuggage, for bringing up the question of whether the knife is silver or silver plated. There are unfortunately no marks of any kind that I can find on the knife, but I was wondering myself whether it might be silver plated because the pattern and color of the tarnish on it seem ide...

1) Thanks for confirming it is, in fact, a fruit knife. 2) I thought when I first saw it that it was possibly of German origin, too. Unfortunately, I can find no identifying marks or imprints. But its ornate filigreed designs reminded me of a German "gentleman's knife" I picked up recently...

I'm new to knife collecting and learned that the membership here is awesomely knowledgeable. I picked up this unusually designed folding knife at a flea market over the weekend. It has no apparent markings on it. The seller's label indicated it was a fruit knife, but the second blade looks like it's...

Wow! Just wow! Thanks very much for such a spot on piece of information! That Wikipedia piece explains explains the Asian style of the mermaid...and her name: S as in Suvannamaccha. I can see that this is an amazing website for knife info.

Thanks to both of you for your helpful insights. As a newby to knife collecting, I'm already beginning to learn that the American knife market seems to have been flooded by products made in China. While some seem to be pretty well made, my preference is not to buy knives made in that country, since ...

This is another unusual pocket knife I found on Cape Cod. It bears no markings on the blade. There is, however, an “S” on the tail of the mermaid on one side of the knife. While the mermaid part of the figure seems standard, the female part reminds of those carvings of Indian women seen on old templ...

’m new to knife collecting and would much appreciate any info on a knife I recently bought on Cape Cod. On upper edge of handle is inscribed:”.925 [copyright symbol] FM. 83 96”. The seller said this indicates the knife is sterling silver and color indicates it has a gold wash. Base of blade reads “S...

Hey, I'm the total newby here, so glad to hear others ' insights. Seemed to look like an "R" to me, but admittedly that might have been because I saw the R on the other blade. Of course, that may just as likely mean "Rostfrei."

Here are some additional shots of the triangle brand stamp, the stamp on the opposite side of the main blade's base reading "rostfrei"(stainless) and "Germany". In incidentally, I Googled "R V Co" but came up with no useful information.

Thanks for the new information. I was impressed by the intricacy of the design "embossed" (?) on the knife and its quality construction. For that reason, I seem to be inclined to German and English manfactured knives (as well, of course, as American.) Both pen knife blades are in very good...

Thanks for your response. It makes sense that this knife may have been manufactured in Germany for an American company, since "Co[mpany] is stamped on the blade. Forgot the German for that word, but I think it's usually abreviated something like "Gmbt". It also may be a promotional kn...

I just started collecting pocket folding knives. I picked up this interesting one at a flea market recently and hope someone can give me some information about it. Stamped at the base of the main blade is: "R V CO, Germany"