This is a from TYPEMYKNIFE Messermanufaktur from the series ,
with a blade length of 22,5 cm and a handle of .
Quasimodo, an art knife based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo
The famous novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” by Victor Hugo was published in the 19th century. A kneel before the Gothic era of architecture striving towards the light.
The overwhelming aesthetics of tracery, pointed arches and buttresses of High Gothic.
Viktor Hugo’s hunchbacked antagonist Quasi Modo, with his strong personality striving for justice, fills the dark halls, the shadowy towers with his very own light.
He saves the wrongly accused gypsy Esmeralda from sexual assault and death as a witch at the stake.
The impressive setting of the novel is the early Gothic cathedral Notre Dame in Paris. She was the model and inspiration for the Gothic daggers of the TYPEMYKNIFE knife manufacturer.
The blade of the dagger is from the Swedish blade manufacturer Nordell with the designation Virginia Dagger. It is a high-alloy stainless steel in a very parallel slender dagger shape.
The hardness is given as 59°HRC. A Gothic motif is etched into the blade. It depicts the holy family in a romantically stylized buttress.
In the tradition of so-called Latin knives, Latin aphorisms are also etched into them, which usually revolve around death, heaven, hell, revenge and honor.
One of the Latin prose lines reads “factum infectum fieri non potest” – what happened cannot be undone. The other side of the blade bears the inscription “concordia domi foris pax” – harmony inside, peace outside.
The blade ends tapered with its ricasso in a ferrule in the guard. The guard is elaborately decorated with silver ornaments and gallery bands, richly set with precious stones.
corals and amethysts. The guard symbolizes Mother Earth, the foundation of every church. The handle rises above it like a Gothic church tower.
Detailed church windows striving upwards with two-part pointed arches and Dreischneuß represent the finely chiselled architecture of the 14th century striving for light.
The handle ends in a steeple roof, octagonal like the whole handle, embodying the heavenly Jerusalem. A finial is enthroned on the top of a tower.
The whole tower hood can be folded back, the handle opens and reveals an ice-clear mountain crystal from the Savoyard high Alps.
The crystal stands for order, clarity and purity. The epitome of Gothic.
The dagger is made of 925 sterling silver, coral, amethyst and rock crystal are incorporated.
The windows have a transparent backing with wafer-thin panes made from the key material of an old harpsichord.
This is a from TYPEMYKNIFE Messermanufaktur from the series ,
with a blade length of 22,5 cm and a handle of .
