Unmarked 10" Chef Knife Forged Carbon Steel Transitional 1960s Solingen Hado The connoisseur line was intended Color:Yellow The connoisseur line was intended to supply professional cooks with high quality hand forged and hand ground stainless steel chef knives to compete with the best European makers of the day harder shelled oysters Unmarked but certainly made in Solingen transitional 1960s drop forged but not hand forged with the post war handle shape of the 1950s and 60s (round transition from bolster to handle) and with aluminum rivets that began to be used in the 1960s It had been sharpened in enough so that the edge was starting to get thick and it has been thinned and re ground here in the old style leaving a thin convex zone in the 1 3 of edge behind the bolster that comes down to a very small bevel