Cutlery Museum Cutlery Museum The Cutlery Museum is a museum located in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme in France in the department of Puy-De-Dome. The museum has been open since 1982 to preserve the memory of the Thiers cutlery industry. The Cutlery Museum consists of three buildings distributed between the city center, among which the one is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry (in the former "House of the Consuls", registered in Monuments History 1983) and the other one in demonstrations of manufacturing of knives and in exhibition of knives of art, and the village of Castle-strapping lad (Thiers) Château-Gaillard where one can
Clauss Cutlery Company Clauss didn't live long to enjoy that success as he died later that year. In the early 1920s the cutlery business faced a serious setback as Germany was permitted to export shears and scissors duty-free to the United States. The idea behind this was to help Germany pay back its World War I debts. As a consequence, German shears sold at half the price of American made shears. Despite the fierce German competition, Fremont counted twenty-five cutlery businesses and was known as the "Cutlery Center of the World". After World War II, Henkel–Clauss was unable to compete with European firms