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Hello everybody!
Bought this at a flea market a few days ago. Paid 25 usd for the knife.
Cleaned and oiled the knife and it works great. On the blade it is stamped "Rich Abr Herder Solingen Germany".
Anyone know how old it is? How much could it be worth?
F. Herder was a large company that made many knives of different patterns for other Solingen makers. I am of the opinion they made most, if not all, of the tab release knives like the Krushke, Klaas, etc. They made many patterns of lever locks, too.
This knife is a great example of their work. It's a display knife.
While it's just an educated guess, I think it's pre-WW2.
I would love to own it!
Ian lol I was only suggesting that Bill might be able to age it and appraise it's value as knowledgeable as he is regarding German lever locks. His name "sprang" to mind at ragnir71's question. I have no knowledge of, nor do I care to know how he's endowed below the belt, so to speak.
Dang! I read " Freidrich Herder!"
Sorry-I now see "Richard." I still think it's pre-war.
The Herder family was prolific in German cutlery. There was Carl, Daniel, Elias, Freidrich, Richard, H.Herder, Otto, Robert, and some others.
Luke ...sorry knew what you meant .but couldn't resist ..just having a laugh
Bill
The condition of this knife is superb aswell. The scales are stunning and the blade is full and sits deep for a 70 year old knife ,probably too big to use ,and as mentioned the centre of some Herder display in a shop window .
There can't be too many of these badboys knocking around ..
It still amazes me here on TB ,you begin to think you may have seen everything ....then something like this appears .
To be honest when I first seen the topic heading I thought that Ragnir had incorrectly typed "inches instead of "cm ".
,gives a whole new meaning to a large springer ..
