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blade marked stainless - handle marked JAL -
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We used to have a set of those JAL knife/forks in the house when I was a little kid in the 60s.
Metal utensils dissappeared from in flight meals on JAL flights about when the term "terrorism" became common.
 
I was curious so I did some googling... like KenHash says, it's from Japan Airlines. Here's a set of cutlery with the logo in the same font, purportedly from the 1970s:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/560299...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
Looking at the history of the logo, it seems likely your knife is from sometime between 1959-1988, based on this site:
https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Japan_Airlines
seems very plausible - estate owners parents were frequent travelers to the orient back then -
 
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