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Government Documents .....sometimes make good reading !

Government documents ....can be useful at times......

Surfing the net ...uncovers a lot of unique information....

This one is about INDIAN Standard  pocket knifes

https://archive.org/stream/gov.in.is.925.1966/is.925.1966#page/n3/m...

Cane Knives

https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.8461.1987

Vegetable knives

https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.3546.1966

Butcher knives

https://archive.org/details/gov.in.is.921.1965

These are just a few that I was scanning through....Interesting STATS on basic Knives

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Permalink Reply by Sue OldsWidow on February 28, 2015 at 21:15

this sometimes helps in dating the antique knives also

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on February 28, 2015 at 21:30

Wow!  Sue that is some interesting stuff.  The Indian Veggie knife even gives specs as to how hard the blade should be

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