Custom - Taschenmesser

PUMA Custom Taschenmesser, the model number is 22 0985. The guarantee control number is 48292. This indicates the knife was hand made in the 2nd half of 1992. The handle is made of smooth black hardwood. The knife is over 25 years old.

The blade is German stainless steel. The handle is black hardwood with a smooth finish. The handle also has five (5) polished silver pins. This knife measures 6 3/4" overall with a 2 3/4" blade. The knife is 4" long when closed with a lanyard hole in the rear bolster. The blade is etched: 220985 STAINLESS - PUMA CUSTOM - SOLINGEN GERMANY. The bolsters are satin finished German silver.

The knife includes the "Puma Proof Mark" on the blade: a small dot or ping on the blade was made with a diamond pointed needle with the Rockwell sticker on blade. This is part of the Rockwell blade quality testing. 

The Puma knife came in the PUMA green and yellow box with the gold tag.

This Puma knife was hand made to the the highest quality. The knife was hand made in Solingen Germany.