cultural tools

the opinel

By May 18, 2009 2 Comments

opinel
opinel
opinel
opinel
opinel
a household standard in france, the opinel knife, is a simple, inexpensive wooden handled pocket-knife, manufactured since the 1890s in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the Savoie region of France. it was invented by joseph opinel in about 1895 and the company is still run by the opinel family. . by the start of ww II as many as 20 million had been sold.

2 Comments

Leave a Reply