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A great little antique hand made brass and steel pocket knife tool accessory with one working stainless steel blade. Blade is made of old steel. This is a little antique hunting pocket knife tool. HANDMADE" only genuine and original. This knife will not only inspire each knife friend: by the use of high-quality old materials, high-quality steel, that needs to be develop into a form-completed pocket knife, which can look extraordinary with a little work. If you are looking to buy high end, hand picked and quality art objects you′ll find a great selection. See our detailed pictures and descriptions at our online gallery on each art object.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penknife

A penknife, or pen knife, is a small folding pocket knife, originally used for cutting or sharpening a quill to make a pen nib. Originally, penknives did not necessarily have folding blades, but resembled a scalpel or wood knife by having a short, fixed blade at the end of a long handle. These knives were used for thinning and pointing quills to prepare them for use as writing instruments and, later, for repairing or re-pointing the quills. Modern penknives may have single or multiple blades and additional tools incorporated into the design. Over the last hundred years, there has been a proliferation of multi-function knives with multifarious and often ingenious gadgets including awls, reamers, scissors, nail files, corkscrews, tweezers, toothpicks. The most famous example of a multi-function knife is the Swiss Army knife, some versions of which number dozens of functions and are really more of a folding multi-tool, incorporating a blade or two, than a penknife with extras. A larger folding knife, especially one in which the blade locks into place, is often called a claspknife.