Eustache

Pretty historic knife, The Eustache !

The blade is in carbon steel and numbered.

The handle is in boxwood with silver metal insert and inclusion of a fresco on the French Revolution.

This knife was created in 1789 by Eustache Benoit, Cutler of Saint-Etienne.

This knife was quoted by the famous novelist Eugène Sue in ‘Mysteries of Paris ».

This great literary fresco of Parisian life was published in preview in the ‘Journal des Débats » between 1842 and 1843.

This knife is a limited series of only a few hundred pieces !

This is a collector’s knife.

Packed in a cardboard box and its description.