New Vintage Nogent / Cuisine Massive 23cm / 9" Chef Carbon St Remy Thiers 50s?

One of the most sought after sizes of vintage chef knives and sadly ony a few of this size were in a big batch of new old stock (aka new vintage) knives. This one is nice and straight but there is a tight crack on the handle and the blade had seen a little rust leaving some pepperspots. 

23cm / a hair over 9" fine ground carbon steel blade Cuisine Massive / Nogent style chef knife in, unused condition. These needed a little more cleaning than some others we have recently listed but are still top shelf manufacture with a hand ground hand forged blade, a clean fit up with an aluminum ferrule (likely suggests 1950's construction) and one piece old style ink dyed beech or fruitwood wood handle. 

No markings but these would have been made in Thiers or nearby Saint Remy. Some have some small residual pepperspots from a little corrosion that had started. 

Nogent style knives are characterized by their one piece wood handles, with a rat tail stick tang extending to the end of the handle and a round steel or aluminum ferrule. ‘Cuisine Massive’ was used to describe the style in Thiers, as Nogent was a rival knife making city.

These knives were made in or around Theirs, France likely in the 1950‘s. They are thin and light being hand forged on an old style 'Martinet' mechanical hammer and then ground by hand on stone wheels, very similarly to how knives were made in the 19th and early 20th century, these techniques and equipment are now long gone.

New Old Stock, Vintage and New Vintage knives do not come sharpened. Please request sharpening if desired in the order notes section of the cart page.