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Hi, everyone. You may already know? Alan R. from Australia has just informed me that Walter Roth died 1 year ago on January 18, 2023, he recently knew it because he could not reach him by email and his nephew replied when he looked at the mails 1 year later in January 2024. He apparently had a heart attack at work and died immediately. His nephew has all his tools and they will remain a collection… it’s a good thing! says Alan. My condolences, I communicated a little by email with him (we exchanged information, documents and I had helped him buy tools in France) and he was very kind, he sent me some gifts as a thank you. For personal reasons and health problems, it’s been years since I left the world of forums and exchanges on tools and saddlery after sharing a lot of documents and everything I could, but it makes me sad...

wow! https://www.instagram.com/alexandr_byvaltsev/ nothing on etsy... https://www.etsy.com/shop/UmaTools

This phoenix looks like an eagle (like the one from the third reich) and the HF looks like the cross ... Very German!

yeah ... and a scottish now! Welcome! I have been in north west Scotland last year, amazing landscape, i just won't leave it, I took amazing pictures and named my 2015 rescue cat "Scotty" (because is red of course!) dedicated to your beautiful contry. I'm also a big fan of Outlander movie and book (and Jamie Fraser because I'm a romantic girl). Ok, back to tools stories...

I'm making the coffee So there is 2 fenchies, 1 swiss, 1 norwegian, 1 canadian (I'd love to go around Vancouver! My stepbrother lives in Montréal now, but he was in Vancouver few years ago), 1 aussie (Australian), 1 danish, 1 german, 1 american...... and more....wow!

Trox (again) The "serpette" with SNCF is the second one I have seen... Mr Montagne told me something about this stamp, it may by a Blanchard did especially for the french train company SNCF, there is none other stamp manufacture on them. I don't know if it's true... Why not. The "B" is probaly the first letter of the owner's family name? Or first name? Here is a third one for 30€: https://www.leboncoin.fr/collection/854144040.htm Do you want me to buy it for you? About Ullathorne, I got some pics if you want them by mail. http://www.forum-outils-anciens.com/t10840-Extraits-du-catalogue-Ullathorne.htm?q=ullathorne From what I read on the cover, It's the same than in London "Ullathorne from London / Paris address" See you, do not hesitate to ask and to contact me by PM because I'm not getting all alerts here and I completly forgot to look at this post... Sorry folks...

Trox: Funny, the first "compas de bourrelier" circle/washer cutters with deer handle looks like a Blanchard, totaly! But here are some "Portrait" logo, so you can compare if it's the same horse with a saddle on it, + a "rembourroir" (to do the flocking, what's the name in english?) + a "couteau mécanique" (plough gauge) from Portrait. It could be a german manufacture too, wich was using a horse (pferd) as a logo (stamp), I've seen some tools like that on eBay Germany...... But there is no letters stamped, only the horse from what I remember, so it'll be difficult to guess the name... If I find something about it, I'll let you know.

So, Trox: I've seen something like the Dumay logo on a half moon knife, someone was asking about it on an another forum, here are 2 pics, you can see how the deer is walking on it, not jumping as on yours, wich make it look more "Blanchard" style, so strange, but they may change the deer to look Blanchard on purpose, like a false one Don't confuse it with the "Dumas Aine 32" wich is from a knifemaker from Thiers (french city of knives), apparently around 1950, none other tools ever seen than the half moon ... http://www.ebay.com/itm/XL-Antique-DUMAS-AINE-32-France-French-Saddlers-Leather-Cutting-Head-Knife/291873763245?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D39850%26meid%3D5062fcf0de164a35a271f56a64178e35%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26sd%3D361717303814

So sorry, I did not got an alarm for new post... But I already talk with you in private, Walter So Walter: Was the cave diving near Rocamadour? May be The St Sauver résurgence... I have been here few years ago and this summer, nice place! And Cabouy close to it is nice too.

hum, looks like a phoenix (or phénix in french).... I don't know this marker stam.. I'll ask and will look to find some informations about it... Letters on the top looks like FF or FP or FE ??? Here are somme round knives, but not those two... http://www.cesari.eu/bricolages/cuir/couteau_pied.htm I'll send you a mp to give you my email for the catalogs but also you may find them here (I'm JadeCB too): Gomph catalog http://www.forum-outils-anciens.com/t10833-Catalogue-Henry-G-Gomph-CO.htm

you said " Then there was the even of the most beautiful things ever made, the company "Strolz Paris" had only very fine ebony handles with inlaid shield made ........nickel silver........... or as the French say, ............."Argentan".............. Blanchard was indeed famous, but by far not the best." but it's "Stoltz" not Strolz A friend of ifojoss.

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Hi Walter, I'm an ex saddler maker from France, I have few Blanchard Tools too and I know very well Mr Montagne from France (Ifojoss) about whom you speak in the page1 "Hi Tor .......... Well, the stories of Tor with the hammer I have ever read as a child, along with Connan the Barbarian ..... ((((-: .... and Prince Ironheart ....................... Norway is an unknown country for Swiss Sattler, like they had a unique culture in the harnesses for work. So I gladly give you the PDF, send me your email address. The price lists are also included. This type of H, the so-called Saddle-Maker-Hammer, which I also have some with wooden handle, horn handle and there were also those with bone handles, with the bones I saw only once in an auction catalog. It is quite possible, that was the one knife making as a repair like this. In Blanchard, there were also workers, after they have retired, still continued to work privately at home. I have such a tool with the Brand ......."Portrait of Paris,"....... has made super fine tools, but it is very rare to find. that was the Worker from Blanchard, told me an old Saddler from France. Here's what to look at. https://sites.google.com/site/ifojoss/outils-bourrelier-sellier/galerie-1 You can buy anything from him that all things are sold. In addition, the prices had ..... Wow. Then there was the even of the most beautiful things ever made, the company "Strolz Paris" had only very fine ebony handles with inlaid shield made ........nickel silver........... or as the French say, ............."Argentan".............. Blanchard was indeed famous, but by far not the best. Even in Switzerland there was a tool making, the ......."Niggli Aarburg"............ has worked very clean. Then the best knives from the company .............."Backaus"............. a Knivemaker in Bern. They were better than that of Blanchard. Backaus made the Half Moon Knife for the Swiss Army Sattler. So now I've visited. Yes here is the second of August, yesterday was National Day with us. Greeting Walter" He's a good friend. He's still having few tools to sell sometimes... A Wheel for stiching, Mercier and Blanchard, very old with wood ball (griffe à conducteur in french) by the way.. If you are interested, contact him or I can tell him... Anyway, here is a part of my collection, far from yours (which is so big!!!), because of french money ha ha ha.. I have been to Switzerland this summer and for sure, frenchs cannot compete .. But so nice landscapes... I'd love to live there! I'm a girl born in a farm in pyrénées, I live in Périgord and I miss mountains.... I have some scans of Blanchard catalog (exactly the same than you), but page 19 and 20 are missing and I don't have price list. Can I have them please? By mail when you'll have time I have some other scan as Krempp and Gomph catalog if you want them (but you may already have them?). best wish