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by knife7knut » Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:46 pm
The little figural knife(that is the type of knife)was indeed made by Daniel Peres of Solingen Germany.The Goins book I have was made in 1986 and it said that D.Peres was still in business then and started in 1885.I have quite a few Peres figural knives and most of them have aluminum handles.
Your knife likely had celluloid handles that may have had advertising on them.Celluloid has a notorious problem of,"out-gassing" or deteriorating and usually destroying the brass liners and steel blades and springs.Even in good condition figural knives are not a high dollar item.
For what it's worth I'd start charging your boss research time. Here is another figural shoe knife from a different maker(Swan Works)to show what yours originally looked like.
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