From a Wupperkotten in 1769 to world-renowned hunting knives and coveted collector's models: For over 255 years, PUMA Solingen has stood for quality, craftsmanship, and practical design.
Even before the French Revolution, the traditional manufacturer existed under the founding family Lauterjung. Using the water power of the Wupper, blades for razors, pocket knives, hair scissors, hunting daggers and sabers were ground on natural grindstones.
The introduction of the steam engine revolutionized blade production. After the end of the Second World War, another momentous event followed for the PUMA factory.
Oswald von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorf (1915–1986) became an employee at the PUMA factory – the basis for the current worldwide success of PUMA hunting knives. As an experienced hunter, he initiated the crucial turning point: away from household knives, towards practical hunting, fishing and utility knives. In cooperation with German and foreign hunting experts, knives were created that still have a legendary worldwide reputation.
Hunting equipment must intelligently combine quality and utility. The PUMA quality management guarantees this – based on the collaboration between experienced, world-renowned designers and long-standing PUMA employees.
PUMA's knife offering has continuously grown over generations. The models always reflect the trends of their respective eras and are practically designed for their specific use.
Developed in collaboration with the East African hunting organization, the White Hunter has a 15 cm long, thinly ground blade – robust enough for rough use, precise enough for the highest demands. On the back there is a convex axe-edge for striking use.
The White Hunter experienced a worldwide triumph. After the PUMA patent expired, the design was copied by almost every knife-producing nation – but never equaled.
With PUMA special editions, the focus is on the finest craftsmanship. Renowned artists, committed to PUMA quality, guarantee masterful engraving and carving artworks crafted purely by hand. Worldwide coveted prestige and collector's items with increasing value – delivered in elaborately crafted luxury cases.
A frequently used basic model for special editions is the folding knife with a lockable blade from the 4-Star series. The white Micarta handle scales are refined by the renowned animal painter Arno Hopp with color engravings in a novel scrimshaw variant: several layers of color create painting-like animal depictions in copperplate engraving technique with impressionistic hand-coloring – unique pieces with painterly image depth, reminiscent of 17th-century ivory paintings.
