New Old Stock 5.5″ Fine Boucher Hand Forged Carbon Steel Beech Thiers, France 1950-60

Unused vintage 5.5″ hand forged and hand ground carbon steel boucher butcher knife with iron and brass rosette riveted beechwood handle. Blade is unmarked, handle is in the old style pre-miter cut (1950’s- early 60’s?) Made in Thiers France. 

This knife is very fine ground and is ‘nail-going’ that is, thin enough to bend very slightly at the edge with pressure on a fingernail. It not only works beautifully for precise butchery work such as trimming and seaming but also is a great small vegetable knife, the blade and handle at heel is shaped to bring full contact with the cutting board allowing for use like a small chef knife. While this is in a butcher’s pattern I suspect these were also used as general utility knives as they do so well as such.

French ‘boucher’ butcher knives are used similarly to a scimitar or bullnose butcher knives; large cuts, slicing chops and steaks. The design of this knife dates back to the middle ages and is still used extensively in southern Europe and France.

Please note these can have small rust spots or imperfections, slight cants or waviness to the edge is possible as well. We do quality control on these but imperfections are possibly part of the picture. 

Please request sharpening if desired, they are not sharp now.