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WKC Stahl- und Metallwarenfabrik ("WKC Steel and Metalwork Factory"), formerly Weyersberg, Kirschbaum & Cie., is a German sword manufacturing company located in Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company was founded in 1883 with the merger of two major Solingen sword-making companies, Weyersberg and Kirschbaum.
Klingenthal was the first Royal Weapons Manufactory in France, and was largely inspired by methods pioneered in Solingen, another major sword-producing town in western Germany. The Solingen Manufactory was the first to develop an infrastructure for the mass-production of weapons, and at the beginning of 18th century was outfitting many of the ...
The SS-Ehrendegen or SS Honour Sword, also SS-Degen (officially Ehrendegen des Reichsführers SS [1]), is a straight dress sword that was worn with an SS uniform from 1935 to 1945. First introduced in 1935, the SS sword was designed by Karl Diebitsch , Heinrich Himmler 's personal advisor on art and design within the SS.
Böker Manufaktur Solingen is the brand offering handmade knives of the parent company Böker in Solingen, specialized in small series productions for collectors. Among the best known products there is the Speedlock switchblade and knives with damask blades, or unique pieces such as those made of steel obtained from the cannon of the Leopard ...
Solingen is called the "City of Blades", and has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives, scissors and razors made by firms such as WKC, DOVO, Wüsthof, Zwilling J. A. Henckels, Böker, Güde, Hubertus, Diefenthal, Puma, Clauberg/Klauberg, Eickhorn, Linder, Carl Schmidt Sohn, Dreiturm, Herder, Martor Safety Knives ...
The present chronology is a compilation that includes diverse and relatively uneven documents about different families of bladed weapons: swords, dress-swords, sabers, rapiers, foils, machetes, daggers, knives, arrowheads, etc..., with the sword references being the most numerous but not the unique included among the other listed references of the rest of bladed weapons.
WÜSTHOF knives are manufactured in Solingen, Germany, [6] where around 400 of the company's 480 employees work. [7] [8] [1] WÜSTHOF's trademark is a trident in a circle. The brand is sold in over 80 countries worldwide. In North America, traditionally the largest market for WÜSTHOF products, the company operates two local distribution ...
The curved, Gothic-hilted 1822 and 1845 pattern infantry swords, although elegant, had been criticised by some as fighting swords [by whom?]. In common with British cavalry swords of the era, they were cut-and-thrust swords. In 1892, a new, straight, blade was introduced, mated to the existing Gothic hilt.