#Solingen

[ayamari-no-goshi]

When you wake up to find out your dad’s parked in front of your house to hand you candy and the cane sword your 94 year old grandmother bought you for your birthday and forgot to give to you.

It’s nice to have family that supports my hobbies… aka sword collecting.

It’s a German cane sword made by Solingen.

(Other sword in the first 2 photos is a fencing arming sword. It was out since I was showing it to my dad)

[theoutcastrogue]

Bartender knives / corkscrews

by J. A. Henckels / Zwilling, Solingen, Germany, 1900-1969

The short curved blade is a foil-cutter, for removing the foil of metal wrapped around the wine bottle's neck before uncorking it. Nowadays there's usually a convenient strip that you can pull with your fingers. (Also, the foil is no longer made of lead; well that was a bad move.) The long corkscrews at the bottom pictures are retracting, otherwise they wouldn't fit on a normal-sized pocket knife, and these are known as Müller patent knives.

[unfug-bilder]

Die "Grenzen des Sagbaren" wurden schon vor Jahren überschritten. Die "Brandmauer" hat es nie gegeben. Auf Solidarität kann niemand auch nur hoffen.

[antifainternational]

March 30, Solingen

[travelella]

Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf Region, Germany

Alexander Schimmeck

[alterugdalf]

Es geht nicht gegen die Verteidiger im Strafverfahren nach dem Anschlag. Es geht gegen die Anwältin, die den mutmaßlichen Täter in seinem Asylverfahren, also lange vor dem Anschlag, vertreten hat!

Und wie meist: "Eine Klassifizierung der Straftat seitens des Staatsschutzes liege noch nicht vor."

[zynikusmaximus]

Nach einem Anschlag, so voller Graus, gibt's eine Demo, gegen rechts, vor unserm Haus. Wenn das die Antwort auf Terror sein soll, sind wir in der Realsatire, ganz und voll. #Solingen zeigt uns, was wirklich zählt, wo der Wahnsinn triumphiert und Vernunft verweht.

[sprites4ever]

The militant group said in a statement on its Telegram account that the attack was carried out by one of its members “in revenge for Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.”

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2024/08/24/isis-claims-responsibility-for-knife-attack-in-germany-

Meanwhile, Palestinians wonder why Germany prefers supporting Israel.

MAYBE it's in part perpetuated by people who misuse their name and suffering as pretext for things like this. How were those festivalgoers who were celebrating the anniversary of their city responsible for Israel bombing Palestinians?

[creativemedianews]

Deadly attack in Germany: A number of people have been killed and injured

Deadly attack in Germany: A number of people have been killed and injured #anniversaryfestival #citycentre

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

German vintage postcard

[sebfreak]

I hope they find this monster very fast and I hope they kill him because he doesn´t have any rights to life anymore.

[theoutcastrogue]

8 Fancy Pocket Knives

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Silver / mother of pearl Victorian fruit knife, England

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Inlaid Toledo knife, Germany

Silver-plated fruit knife, USA

Damascene Toledo knife, Spain

Etched pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

Mother of pearl pocket knife from Eskilstuna, Sweden

@victoriansword [details after the cut]

1) Swedish pocket knife by EKA (Eskilstuna Kniffabriks AB), c. 1980-2000. Model 6 GS (1967-2010), with main blade, bottle opener/screwdriver, pen blade, and nail file. Tang stamp "EKA / SWEDEN" (from 1967), etched handle, 7 cm closed.

These were very popular in the 2nd half of the 20th century as gift knives or advertising knives. They were manufactured by many cutlers in Eskilstuna, and widely exported. The decorative pattern appears, with variations, on Swedish knives from at least the 19th century, and is inspired by Norse / Viking art, which often features twisted serpents/dragons. The interlacing perhaps also borrows from Celtic knots.

2) English fruit knife by Martin Bros & Co, 1848. Silver blade with 4 hallmarks (for Queen Victoria, the year, sterling silver, and Sheffield) and maker's mark, mother of pearl scales, 9.5 cm closed.

This is the posh version of what used to be an incredibly useful tool, a knife (and sometimes a multi-tool knife and fork) for eating on the road. The fancier ones were also status symbols, and very popular gifts – millions of silver fruit knives were manufactured in Britain from the 18th to the 20th century, mostly in Sheffield, Birmingham, and Edinburgh.

3) Spanish Toledo knife, as it's sometimes called, a damascened penknife of recent manufacture. Two pen blades, tang stamp "TOLEDO", 6.7 cm closed.

Not to be confused with Damascus blades! The handle is damascened – decorated with gold inlaid into oxidized steel (see here for details). Reminder that gold is a highly ductile metal (you can stretch it real thin before it breaks), so that impressive aesthetic result comes from a tiny amount of gold. It's a cheap knife, is what I'm saying, for tourists basically.

4) German pocket knife, confusingly also called Toledo, by Hartkopf. With main blade, pen blade and nail file. Brass handle inlaid with oxidised steel. Tang stamp "Hartkopf&Co / Solingen", 8cm closed.

It's "damascened" in the broad sense of inlaying, hence the name "Toledo": it supposedly emulates the Spanish style, and perhaps pretends to be Spanish, but both the metals and the geometric patterns are different. Knives of this type were popular in Germany all through the 20th century as gifts and advertising knives.

5) American fruit knife by William Rogers Mfg, made in Hartford, Connecticut c.1865-1898. Main blade, seedpick [also called nut-pick or nut-picker *snickers*], silver-plated nickel silver, decorated with flowers and apples. Tang stamp: an anchor logo and "Wm ROGERS & SON AA", 8.2 cm closed.

Sometimes fruit knives like this were bought by fruit shops/groceries (relatively fancy ones, presumably) in bulk, and sold or given to customers as gifts.

6) Spanish Toledo penknife (another one). With pen blade and damascened handle, different pattern, probably a bit older. Tang stamp again "TOLEDO", 6.8 cm closed.

7) Swedish pocket knife by Emil Olsson, c. 1920-1950. Blade, pen blade and corkscrew. Tang stamp "EMIL OLSSON / [star logo] / ESKILSTUNA", 9.2 cm closed.

Another etched serpent pattern on the handle, though by now you have to squint to see it. This knife has seen some shit. Until ~1940, pocket knives were widely sold and used in Sweden because they came with corkscrews, and all the bottles had corks, and everyone needed to open bottles. After the war, bottle caps replaced corks for everything except wine, and the pocket knife's utility plummeted, and cutleries started closing. There used to be hundreds, and by now only EKA's left. So statistically, if it's from before ~1950 it saw a lot of use, and if it's after ~1950 it did not, it was a gift or something.

8) Swedish pocket knife by EKA, c.1935-1965. Model 38 PB, with blade, pen blade, flat screwdriver, and corkscrew. Handle with mother of pearl scales and nickel silver bolsters, tang stamp "E.K.A. / ESKILSTUNA / SWEDEN", 8.3 cm closed.

The corkscrew is a quirky one, known as Gottlieb Hammesfahr patent: it pivots on the pin and opens perpendicular to the handle, not pulled downwards as in most pocket knives.

[unfug-bilder]

[travelella]

Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf Region, Germany

Alexander Schimmeck