All About Pocket Knives

jander5191 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:50 pm That's the problem
closeup of the tang stamp is all gone!!!!!!
The only hope if some one is smart enough to know what the red square with the gold ring means!!!!!!
HELP HELP HELP

just bob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:22 pm I can't ID your knife. I enlarged the pictures and had no luck. The bottom word may begin with Prov. or may say France? What I can tell you is that knives like this are commonly called picnic knives. If you search on Google or Ebay many images will comes up. Others call these champagne knives because of the corkscrew and you'll even see a few listed on ebay as swiss army knives, because they are multi purpose. Pradel in France made many of this style of knife and in fact had a square shield with a cross in it on many of their knives. They also commonly have a blade etch and yours does not. I don't see another knife with a shield like yours has and that probably indicates it wasn't a major American maker or else many on here would recognize it. I'm not sure that is a ring? I thought it was a drum? It maybe the mark of a European vineyard or beverage maker? One thing you might try is to find someone that has a jeweler's loupe. I have been stumped on several knives and taken them to the local guy who has a loupe and he has been able to pick up details that I missed with a magnifying glass. The more letters you can make out the better chance you have of ID'ing the knife. Keep us posted on your progress.