Hi all,
I hope someone can help. My brother just received this email from an American friend. I've done some of the obvious research, Google.fr for any of the names, and so on, a careful look through all known French knife trademarks and so on and so forth. Got nowhere at all. Now given that Sabatier has never been one company, but a sort of gage of quality rather like "Sheffield" in the Uk, and has never been based in Paris, my brother and I wondered if it might not have been a fake, especially as references to Bresduck seem to be to a New York firm of razor makers!
Are there any knife fans amongst you who could see if you can find out more? Here's the original text of the letter.
PD> Sorry for the bother, but I've a question you might know something about I was casting about trying to figure out something about a knife I bought years ago. It's an old, heavily used carbon steel Sabatier 10 inch with a wooden handle with 3 brass rivets, and is marked "Veritable Bresduck, Sabatier Paris-France, Chef au Ritz" stamped over top of a caricature of a chef complete with hat and moustaches. Incidentally, I bought it in Eugene, Oregon in a "flea market" for $1.75 and have often mused, "If knives could talk, what stories they could tell". It's a wonderful thing to work with in the kitchen.
Know any Francophile historians out there who might now where I could find out about the history of this model. Google sends me to new Sabatier knives, now made in China, or ebay.