![]() The blade is marked with the Hen & Rooster mark on the front side and Bertram, Germany on the reverse side. Measures 2-7/16" closed with a 1-7/8" clip point blade. If you want one of the knives made in the original shop of the Bertram Firm, this is an opportunity you will not want to miss. You can not get this quality today any place else at these prices. Russell knifes edge is factory perfect with no signs of ever having been used to cut anything. We then produced the Model 104 in five different handle materials (only these remain). There were only 1,800 CM-4's with Ivory scales made. The very last knife produced before the German court took our land and buildings and sold them for about a quarter of their appraised value, was the Model 104 Baby Barlow, which you see here. The very first knife made (produced for the Knife Collector's Club) was the CM-4 Baby Barlow. ![]() In the years that we owned the original Hen & Rooster factory, we produced some very beautiful knives. The knives made before the bankruptcy were among the finest the world has ever known. Against my wishes, the little firm was put into bankruptcy and the name and trademark were purchased by the firm of Robert Klaas, who has made knives marked with the Hen & Rooster Trademark and the words Bertram Cut. Russell with a spear point blade, 1055 carbon steel and boot clip, its made for. Keeping a truly handmade knife company together while the mark multiplied itself by more than double, was more than I could manage. The CRKT Sting is a tactical fixed blade boot knife designed by A.G. Using workers who had been with the firm for generations, we held the little company together for five years. AGR had them on sale thru their 2009 Customer Appreciation Catalog, and I finally fell for it. The commemorative one was purchased new from AG Russell in 2004. In 1975, I bought the company and formed the firm of Bertram G.M.B.H. Russel Ultimate Pen Knife AGR Model: RUS-P3TIB This little beauty is about the smallest, lightest, sharpest out-of-the-box cutter, whittler, picker I've come across. I have two of these small, Ultimate Pen Knives made by AG Russell. In time the small firm was passed on to the sons and then to the grandsons. Because he raised (as a hobby) fancy chickens, he used as a trademark, a Hen and Rooster. Herr Bertram set out to make the best pocket knives. Bertram founded a small cutlery firm in Solingen, Germany which was fated to become, for a brief period, the maker of the very finest pocket knives in the world.
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