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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 70618, member: 44"]Baker, nailed it. Folding fruit knives were very useful back when because of bad teeth. One needed to bite into apples, etc.. to eat and that was painful to most people because of bad teeth. Fruit knives allowed them to cut up the fruit to eat rather than biting into it. I think the French started using the sterling and coin silver knives back in the 1700s. Sterling was the metal of choice because citric acids pitted and severely damaged other metals. Also sterling is anti-microbacterial (sp???). The use of these knives quickly spread to England and to America. Following is a thread on a pocketknife forum about fruit knives.</p><p><a href="https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19395" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19395" rel="nofollow">https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19395</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A little article about folding fruit knives an eBay:</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/The-History-and-Use-of-Silver-Folding-Fruit-Knives-/10000000018498971/g.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/gds/The-History-and-Use-of-Silver-Folding-Fruit-Knives-/10000000018498971/g.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/gds/The-History-and-Use-of-Silver-Folding-Fruit-Knives-/10000000018498971/g.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Google images of them:</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sterling+fruit+knives&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAmoVChMIxNCW24L5xgIVRc6ACh0DiAKs&biw=1024&bih=649" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sterling+fruit+knives&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAmoVChMIxNCW24L5xgIVRc6ACh0DiAKs&biw=1024&bih=649" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=sterling+fruit+knives&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAmoVChMIxNCW24L5xgIVRc6ACh0DiAKs&biw=1024&bih=649</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 70618, member: 44"]Baker, nailed it. Folding fruit knives were very useful back when because of bad teeth. One needed to bite into apples, etc.. to eat and that was painful to most people because of bad teeth. Fruit knives allowed them to cut up the fruit to eat rather than biting into it. I think the French started using the sterling and coin silver knives back in the 1700s. Sterling was the metal of choice because citric acids pitted and severely damaged other metals. Also sterling is anti-microbacterial (sp???). The use of these knives quickly spread to England and to America. Following is a thread on a pocketknife forum about fruit knives. [URL]https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19395[/URL] A little article about folding fruit knives an eBay: [URL]http://www.ebay.com/gds/The-History-and-Use-of-Silver-Folding-Fruit-Knives-/10000000018498971/g.html[/URL] Google images of them: [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=sterling+fruit+knives&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAmoVChMIxNCW24L5xgIVRc6ACh0DiAKs&biw=1024&bih=649[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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