Odd Russian Knife

[Walleye]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

Cant help you with your questions on Russian knives, but the swivel opening and lock design of the knife is based on the Barry Wood US patent #3,702,501 from Nov 14, 1972. Parker also made some that offered a similar but slightly different opening and locking design that were Japanese made. I have a blade from one of the Parkers and am making a handle and mechanism to make it usable.

[doglegg]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

Cant help you with your questions on Russian knives, but the swivel opening and lock design of the knife is based on the Barry Wood US patent #3,702,501 from Nov 14, 1972. Parker also made some that offered a similar but slightly different opening and locking design that were Japanese made. I have a blade from one of the Parkers and am making a handle and mechanism to make it usable.

You've dropped a teaser OC. Looking forward to the finished product.

[Gunsil]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

Cant help you with your questions on Russian knives, but the swivel opening and lock design of the knife is based on the Barry Wood US patent #3,702,501 from Nov 14, 1972. Parker also made some that offered a similar but slightly different opening and locking design that were Japanese made. I have a blade from one of the Parkers and am making a handle and mechanism to make it usable.

Barry Wood didn't design the knife, he merely copied a design that was patented in the 1880s. I have also seen a European one from the 1920s-30s.

[FRJ]

The Barry Wood folding knife.

[Eustace]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

The knife was manufactured at the "long-distance communications equipment" (АДС) plant in the city of Perm in the late 70s - early 80s. What you call an anchor is the logo of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

[Walleye]

Got this odd Russian knife on eBay and wanted to share it.

It’s obviously a souvenir type knife, chrome plated carbon steel blade, the handles appear to be cast zinc with plastic inlays. The logo (which is hard to see under the scratched plastic) appears to be a red anchor with the Cyrillic letters that correspond with the city of Perm, on the Kama River.

I’m assuming this is likely a Soviet-era knife, maybe from the 60’s? Anyone have any background on knives like this or where they might have been sold in Russia at the time? This came from a seller in California. Russian knives (especially from the Cold War era) were highly unlikely to be imported to the U.S., and I have gotten lucky enough to find a few on eBay over the years. They typically strike me as not being very well made. However, I would be interested in purchasing a good quality vintage Russian penknife if the price was right. I’m sure that their leaders and politicians would have carried such knives. But who knows, maybe they carried Case and Buck knives like all the rest of us.

The knife was manufactured at the "long-distance communications equipment" (АДС) plant in the city of Perm in the late 70s - early 80s. What you call an anchor is the logo of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Thank you for this information. I used your suggestion to do more research. I found two similar other knives, one indeed has the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic logo and one has another logo. While the cap on my knife is pretty beat up, I think the one on my knife is not from the 1980 Moscow games, see these two knives for sale on ebay:

With Olympic logo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/313420478704

Different red and white logo: https://www.ebay.com/itm/125376909664?m ... media=COPY

[Eustace]

Yes you are right. I had a knife like that with the Olympics logo on it and I didn't look at the picture.
This is the emblem of the city of Perm from the time of the USSR.

[Eustace]

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