Sickle type knife for foraging herbs

[Toddy]

I have a mushroom knife like that, in fact it looks identical apart from having a brush at the end of the handle.

 

[Nice65]

Hi all, I'm looking to get a sickle-like knife for gathering / foraging herbs.

A friend mentioned the Opinel 10 pruning knife (pic below) as one possibility, and I'm aware the locking mechanism can be removed. What do you use and recommend, please? Thank you.

I live in the UK and I've been reading elsewhere on the forum about the relevant knife laws (non-locking, blade length, reasonable to have etc).
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I reckon this is a great choice. It has a bigger curve than most hawkbills. Locking isn’t a problem if your intention is to use the knife for what it’s designed to do, it’s too easy to close a hooked blade on your fingers while reaching in.

 

[HillBill]

A few years ago I picked up this gardener's knife. It's a very simple thing with no spring; a mechanism that in French might be called a "piedmontais" or in English a "two-nail" or "penny knife".

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Nogent? The Champagne knife making company?

 

[Keith_Beef]

Nogent? The Champagne knife making company?

Not a company; Nogent is a town, historically one of the main manufacturing centres in France for all things choppy and slicy, along with Thiers, La Monnerie-le-Montel, Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle, Laguiole, Nontron, and a couple of others whose names escape me for the moment.

 

[Pattree]

@Keith_Beef
Did you really forget Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne!

Not sure of the scale of the “Penny Knife” but there are a number of concave curved blade shapes without springs, made at Haute Savoie that would do the job well and don’t cost much. (As in the OP)
I’d still recommend secateurs but NOT the Opinel ones. Far far too pricy.

 

[HillBill]

Not a company; Nogent is a town, historically one of the main manufacturing centres in France for all things choppy and slicy, along with Thiers, La Monnerie-le-Montel, Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle, Laguiole, Nontron, and a couple of others whose names escape me for the moment.

Was asking mainly because i spent a bit of time at Fort De Nogent in Paris.