Who made this OBB grafting knife?

[Unfortunatehabit]

Hi there, I am completely new to this forum. I hope members will be able to help me. I have a grafting knife which is about 100mm closed. Here is a link to a picture of it:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1162x854q70/r/923/aTc4U4.jpg

As you can see, it has a very distinctive tang stamp, with the letters ÖBB (I can't get rid of the umlaut in this box!) and three arrows forming the radii of a semi-circle. I believe it is German, and possibly from the DDR. Thank You.

 

[tdmtreiber11]

Good Morning,

What i have found quickly is a company called ""Oskar Butter, Bautzen"". They made garden tools.

Here ist another thread about knives from this company, unfortunately only in german.


DDR-Messer mit unbekannter Funktion (https://messerforum.net/threads/ddr-messer-mit-unbekannter-funktion.134740/)


Your knife is apparently really from the DDR. A member of this forum, named @Egbert, was as a pupil while a guided tour in this company.

If you make a search at ebay with "" oskar butter"", you will find some other things from this company.


Greetings from bavaria 😁

 

[Unfortunatehabit]

Thank you so much! I always like to know a bit about my knives. Googling 'Oskar Butter KG garden tool factory' will bring up their entire 1936/37 catalog - very interesting! There are plenty of pictures in it of horticultural knives with the distinctive pattern of four pins plus the pivot. Possibly in the GDR days they were economizing, and so reduced it to two pins plus the pivot. My knife has steel liners which are brass coated on both sides, something I have not seen before, and possibly also an economy measure.

I have another knife which I think is German, but about which I can find no reference online. Here are a couple of pictures:
george raynor.jpg - Click to see more photos (https://imageshack.com/i/pm6deWXmj)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/854x854q70/r/924/wfK8FO.jpg
It is a nice little 80mm mother of pearl whittler. The brand is George Raynor & Co and the tang stamp looks like a man wearing a conical hat and riding a rocking horse - very distinctive.

And greetings from Wellington, New Zealand