OT With apologies. Help re knife.

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.

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Ian Hoare
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Hi Ian I googled too and found the following in

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Ditto here, I really love my my old carbon steel Sabatiers, but did you know Sabatier is a style of knife not a company. Just like Laguiole knives, lots of different companies make them. This accounts for the huge variation in quality. Some are even made in china, so be careful! I mine are from several different companies but the ones from "Chef au Ritz" Paris are the highest quality.

The writer seems to be a chef in Switzerland.

That forum might be something for you, Ian? The thread was The Ultimate Knife..., Kershaw? Global? Mac? Vintage Sabatier?

best, Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

Sabatier knives of many types have been sold in the US for a very long time. Many are sold by cooking supply companies, including mail order ones. Some companies import Sabatier knives from an unnamed French company or use their US company name on the blades. I have 2 types of Sabatier knives, about 25 - 30 years old. A rather large stainless knife just says" Professional Sabatier, Made in France, stainless" on the blade. A carbon steel paring knife has "Sabatier, Rowoco, made in France, 4 stars, and an elephant engraved on the blade. The handle has "Sabatier, 4 stars, and the elephant" on it. In this case one finds that Rowoco is a US company in New York that was importing and selling Sabatier knives and much else in the 1970s, and they might still be in business. The name on the knife gives you no information about who might have made the knife in France. I suspect the names on your knife might be a company or brand name of an importer and have nothing to do with who made the knife in France. For an old knife, the company that imported it could well be out of business, so a search for it would be difficult.

PCD Cutlery in the US sells many brands of knives. Their current catalog lists Sabatier knives in either carbon or stainless steel, and the blades have the 4 stars and the elephant that I described on one of my knives. The text of the catalog says that the knives are by Thiers Issard of Thiers, France, but this information is not on the blade or handle of the knife, the best I can see the illustrations. The elephant could be a trademark of the French company, or again it could be that of an importer.

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Which is, apparently what happened here.

I received this from another friend

Thanks to both you and Anders for responding.

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