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Hello everyone - I'm having a difficult time trying to Google the heck out of stamps on this folding knife I purchased at a gunshow this past weekend....I wasn't sure if it was something anyone recognized, "3CH" or "3GH"....not sure....after mistaking a G for a C on the Glock logo, I don't trust my judgement sometimes

I was told it was Russian, but can't find any makers with this kind of stamp on it, but I also don't know much at all about pocket knives! Is anyone familiar with this stamp? In just curious about its origins.

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Leolife2005 wrote: I was told it was Russian, but can't find any makers with this kind of stamp on it, but I also don't know much at all about pocket knives! Is anyone familiar with this stamp? In just curious about its origins.

Hi, Leolife! Right, it's Russian. Produced in the late 1950s in a завод "Складние ножи" ЗCH (Factory "Folging Knives") in Vorsma city. The same model is produced for Army Medical kits - designed to safely cut bandages. After 1960, the stamp changed to СН.

In google you had to search "складной нож ЗСН"

Folding Knife Factory (ЗСН) (Vorsma)
In 1870, N. Shmakov organized his own factory in Vorsma. After the nationalization and a number of associations in 1927, the association No. 2 of the ПРУМП (Factory "Lenin") was formed. In 1931, the "Lenin" factory was transferred to the Medinstrument Trust and the factory No. 8 was separated from it, which in 1935 was transformed into a Folding Knife Factory (ЗСН). In 1957, the Artel "Red October" (ВАКО) joined the plant. In the mid-70s, the ЗСН was renamed to "October".