Featured Small Silver Pocket Knife

Dear all, again i have a little puzzle here. I wonder what this very small "pocket knife" - if that is what it is, have been used for, and when it is made and by whom (i cannot figure it out when going through marks, sorry to say..)
It is very small, only 5,5 cm long, and the knife blade is very thin, but as you can all see, it is a very pretty little item, with shaft in mother of pearl?
So I am puzzled- anyone up for the challenge here, i would appreciate it highly!

 

Silver blade... Fruit knife!
Very pretty

 

Maybe for whittling small items .. Joy.

 

The people who really know this stuff will be along, but think Sheffield.

Date letters:
https://www.925-1000.com/dlc_sheffield.html

My first thought was fruit knife, but fairly blunt nose makes me wonder if it could be a paper knife, for slitting apart book pages.

 

sterling blade = fruit knife...

 

Thanks for all the good thoughts here. I just find it hard to see it as a fruit knife, with such a delicate blade, it is very soft and bendable!? But who knows?

 

Someone treated the blade badly with a "file" or something else,probably not knowing the blade was silver.The 2nd photo down shows the damage to the blade with deep gouges.

 

I am sure you are right, but actually it looks much worse on the photos than in real life..

 

That's why it's for fruit and not meant to cut harder things........

 

The date letter looks like the 1904 m and the maker Arthur Worral Staniforth shown here - http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Sheffield-A.html#AS

 

in my case........ in pairs !! yahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yup, pocket fruit knife carried by chaps.

 

Pears. Oranges. Apples. Bananas, etc. Soft, fleshy fruit. I wouldn't try to crack open a coconut with that thing.

 

Yes, too bad someone ruined the blade trying to "sharpen" it.

 

The blade isn't THAT bad, really. I daresay if you polish it - VERY carefully, you could restore its original appearance. But you'd need to be careful about how you do that. But yes, no sharpening. They're not meant to be sharp.

 

OK -

 

Old MOP fruit-knives like these are highly collectible. People use them as letter-knives and such these days. I have a two-blade MoP pen-knife made in Germany (early 20th century I think it is), which is absolutely gorgeous.

 

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Nice goodies too, Komo!! Love the salts!!