All About Pocket Knives

Hello, my name is Trevor and I live in North Carolina. I’ve recently started collecting Friedr and Herder knives. The main reason I’m posting this is because I’m curious about the sailors knife that has Granzio and LaRural on the handles. Everything I can find is telling me that this knife was handed out in the 1950s by insurance company in Argentina to promote getting the syphilis vaccine… . Whatever it’s a Friiedr.. I paid next to nothing for it and received it from Argentina about a month ago. I’ll be darned if I can’t find any other knife like it on the Internet.
Do you think this snack could be valuable and do you know of any other versions of this knife that can be found on the Internet? I’m interested to hear what everyone has to say.

Thanks for showing the knives, and welcome to AAPK. Sorry no one has replied, but I’m guessing it is because no one who has seen your post so far has answers to your questions. There are collectors of German-made, and European knives that are members here but it may take a while for someone to see this and reply.

Regarding value, that’s a function of supply, demand, and condition. There’s generally not a great demand for that brand (some do collect them, and some collect advertising knives too) and due to condition issues I doubt they have much value. eBay (sold listings only) can be a good resource for ballpark values so you might try an advanced search there for Herder knives to see what has been sold. Compare condition of your with those that have sold, and adjust accordingly.

Ken

Thanks for the reply, the only two knives that are in good condition are the sodbuster Friedr and the Don Carlos trench knife. People try to sell these knives for $150 on eBay all day but I only see sell for 90 to 100. That’s OK though I like the brand because they’re rare and even in bad condition the actions work excellent. Hopefully somebody else can drop a reply but the real question I have is a knife that I bought from Ukraine that has a hot air balloon on the tang stamp. Maybe you can search my post Ukrainian barn German knife. I would love any input you have on this. Thanks again.

Also got this new one, Haven’t cleaned it in a while, but I sprayed it with some WD-40.