L’Enfer 16.5cm / 6.75″ Plate-Semelle Boucher Carbon Steel 3 Rosettes Rosewood Handle 1920-30s

Interesting marks on this boucher, if the “L’Enfer” mark is original, then it was made by the Garret Company of Thiers who forged and cut knife blades in Le Creux de L’Enfer building in the heart of Thiers’ Durolle River Valley in the 1920s and 30s. The nameLe Creux de L’Enfer supposedly refers back to the third century when St. Genesius was beheaded by a Roman soldier at the “rock of hell”. This site was used for knife manufacturing as early as 1476, read more here about Le Creux de L’Enfer.

Very lightly used, or possibly unused, but dulled through storage with other knives. It has an old paper sticker on the one piece wood handle.