Can anyone identify this old knife

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I have an old folding knife that I need help identifying. It has some letters on the knife blade but I can't make all of them out as you can see in the pictures. letters end with "igus" or "icus" I believe but I can't make out the first 3 letters as there is a scratch mark on them.

I have an older WW1 that I found with if so perhaps it's from this time period.


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It's an older pruning knife. Quite common and made by several manufacturers around the turn of the 20th century, and still made today.

I don't recognize the maker, however.

A Google image search for "folding pruning knives" will show you some very similar examples to your own.
 
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Folding billhook. Does not appear to have enough age to place it so far back in time. Looks like it reads "Falicus"?
 
polish avenger said:
Folding billhook. Does not appear to have enough age to place it so far back in time. Looks like it reads "Falicus"?
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ok great! That got me some hits on the google machine. I see some images that look similar. Will do more research on the time period. Thanks!
 
Might be an Italian or French grape knife? I don't know if they made them that large though.
 
Reminds me of a Mexican/Spanish fighting/utility knife known as a "tranchete saca tripas". An example of one below (partially open). A knife used both for utility work, and as a weapon.

If I recall correctly, "saca tripas" means "guts out", or "to disembowel".

But curved-bladed folders are certainly not unique to any one country.


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