they are still making these inscribed knives in chania, crete. an elderly knife maker, Apostolis Pachtikos, made these:
not mine.
mine.
i gather he is actually a turk who immigrated to crete way back when & has been making knives there for 60+ years. i hope he still is. last i heard there were only 7 other makers left.
edited: apparently the other 7 have died.
apostolis signs his knives as 'armenis' as when he arrived from turkey, they mistakingly referred to him as the armenian
