Chatellerault switchblade marked T F BASTET AMSTERDAM

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Re: Chatellerault switchblade marked T F BASTET AMSTERDAM

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Around 1900.
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I'm from Amsterdam in The Neherlands. Bastet was one of the oldest cutlery stores around there for over threehundred years. It's history goes all the way back to the 1600's. It closed in 1984. They were famous for dealing (or making???) table spoons, forks and knives to the Royal Family. The first time that I see a switchblade with Amsterdam stamped in it. :shock: It is most probably made in Belgium. They had a way much bigger cutlery industry.

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That is sweet. Quite uncommon.
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I’m just wondering about the rust and the green oxidation. Shouldn’t that rust be removed? It’s only damaging the knife.? I think it should be restored at least cleaned up the rust.
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So Bill, do you think it is around 1900? :wink:
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Don't know what happened there, but I think it was made around 1900!
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ya know, i heard it was made around 1900 !!!, butt was that ad or bc ???
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Probably around the turn of the century.
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Very early 20th century.
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I thought you meant it was made at 7pm.
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No-around 1900, but maybe at 7...
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john wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:56 pm I’m just wondering about the rust and the green oxidation. Shouldn’t that rust be removed? It’s only damaging the knife.? I think it should be restored at least cleaned up the rust.
I cleaned it up minimally - the surface rust and green oxidation, you can see it minimally cleaned up in some of the pictures. My main concern was not losing the T F BASTET AMSTERDAM mark on the blade.
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1900 one more time??
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