Novelty Cutlery Cat Knife Folding Pocket Knife

The Novelty Cutlery Cat Knife is a miniature figural folder, a 1.38-inch mirror-finished stainless pen blade in a cat-shaped nickel silver handle with a key ring, closing to 2.25 inches.

The handle is the whole point. Cast in the outline of a cat and finished in nickel silver, it reads as an ornament before it reads as a knife, and the fitted key ring says how it is meant to be carried. Novelty Cutlery has made figural pocketknives since the 1930s, when knives shaped like animals, shoes and bottles were common souvenirs and advertising giveaways.

The pen blade is the slim, symmetrical shape traditionally used for fine work, and at 1.38 inches it handles envelopes, tape and loose threads rather than anything demanding. Explore more Folding Knives.

• Cat-shaped nickel silver handle with a fitted key ring
• 1.38-inch mirror-finished pen blade
• 2.25 inches closed, sized as a keyring piece
• Figural pattern in the Novelty Cutlery tradition