Sabatier Rue St Honore 13.5" Chef Knife Nogent / Cuisine Masif Carbon Steel & Ebony Paris / Thiers France 1890s-1920s

Sabatier (with hand) Rue St Honore 13.5" chef knife hand forged after drop forged carbon steel blade with brazed steel sheet ferrule (before solid aluminum tube was used post war) and ebony handle. 

The knife blade is straight and is very full with a heel height of a little over 2 1/2" inches. It had some significant rust on the blade and a split in the ebony handle. The rust has been cleaned and the crack sealed with epoxy and then a black epoxy putty. The blade has had the rust removed but some pits remain. Overall we left in all the evidence of its age rather than try and hide it, but brought it back to working order, it still has another lifetime left of use.  An "M" was carved into the mark side of the handle, and this has been filled in as well, but is still visible.