Vintage, charming, Laguiole Veritable 74 fruit knife crafted with buffalo horn scales,
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Vintage, charming, Laguiole Veritable 74 fruit knife crafted with buffalo horn scales,
crowned 74 / VERITABLE LAGUIOLE
1950s France
Size closed : 12 cm
Size open : 22 cm
LAGUIOLE
The first Laguiole knives were inspired by the Arabo-Hispanic knife, the Navaja. Cattle herders and shephards from southern France who migrated to Spain in the winter brought them back as souvenirs. Local cutlers and blacksmiths blended the Navaja with a popular local knife, the “Capuchadou” creating what is known as the Laguiole Knife.
In 1829, Jean-Pierre Calmels, a blacksmith from the village of Laguiole, designed the first Laguiole knife. A few years later he added an Awl or Trocar to the knife in response to the need of local shepherds to treat their livestock. The awl was used as a surgical tool to pierce the stomach of cattle to relieve them from bloat; This addition has very little use in modern society.
