"The Zeppelin knife was made by the brothers Louis and Lucien Garnier, Nogent knife makers It was reportedly
inspired by the crash landing of German Zeppelin L49 near Nogent on October 20, 1917. The Zeppelin knife
has silver liners, eight different tools and scales of tortoise. The atelier Garnier apparently planned two make
two specimens, large and small, but only one is preserved in the museum. In recent times, the Zeppelin knife
has been recreated by several French knife makers, as a sort of chef d’oeuvre: Robert Beillonnet, Mathieu
Herrero, Michel Prevost and Adrien Vautrin."
Bow-on view of the crashed and captured L-49