Need help identifying pocket knife

Thanks!

 

looks like a fishermans knife....

 

If u want to know the maker u may have to post on a specialized knife site. I looked over the web for a while and came up with nothing even close. The logo looks slightly like a French Foreign Legion paratrooper beret badge, but I do mean slightly. Good luck, I think u will need it.

 

I did post on specialised forum, but saw no harm in asking here either since it is pocket multy tool and it is vintage.
If I made a mistake I kindly ask the moderator to kill this thread

 

Or other maritime knife; if the little pointy thing is rounded but pointy it is a "fid" used for working with rope; splicing, and so on.
Fids are also used by stained-glass makers for the tape-and-solder method of assembly.
Don't think that would make this a stained-glass-maker's knife though.

 

Is a fid the same as a marlin spike?

 

Not sure...
You be the judge:

 

We sell both items. Fids for working fiber lines are wood in many sizes from about 6" to 18" long, like a baseball bat but the small end comes to a sharp point. Marlinspikes are always steel and those not part of a pocket knife range from about 6" to 36".

 

Spike is 1.2 inch long and the whole tool closed is 7.5 inches

 

My mistake. The tool closed measures 3 inches

 

It is hard to tell if that was intended to be a fid or not, it is so beat-up; not sure it is rounded enough to be a fid. Maybe just a punch or awl or screwdriver blade.
As mentioned, a fid is a shorter version of a marlinspike, with the pocket-knife versions being shorter than one would generally prefer-but more portable.
My Dad and uncle were quite adept at using fids in making decorative and useful knots and splices.
(They participated in several Trans-Pac races, San Pedro to Hawaii in the 1940s, 2,225 nautical miles in a Tahiti ketch; double that actually because they made the return trip....that's how my Mom and Dad met; uncle's sister met them at the dock).

 

I sent the knife info to the knife expert in a gun club I belong to. He makes knives and deals in knives and guns, and probably owns every knife reference book printed in the English language. If he can't ID it you might as well label it as a mystery knife.

 

Thanks Springfld! I really appreciate this.
I had no luck in other forum so far.
The small ball looks like some kind of pearl

 

The small ball looks like it is just something that got stuck there because it was in the same pocket as the knife, with no relation to the knife, you could probably pry it out with a toothpick.

 

The expert says "I don’t recognize the mark but the knife looks east block European. Probably not high dollar. Hope this helps."

 

Thanks Spring!
Eastern european sounds extremely likely.
It is strange that it is so obscure no one in this or other forum saw the mark ever before. The other forum is a european one.