"Stanley knife" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Dennis Sloan, The Twenty-Third Little Varmint, published 2005, page 126",
          "text": "Hotels expect to lose ashtrays, coat hangers and towels, for me it was Stanley knives. I didn′t mind a bit! If anyone bought a ₤35 a carpet, they were more than welcome to a 50 pence knife.",
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          "ref": "2002, Guy Rundle, “Up from the Dead”, in Peter Craven, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2002, page 187",
          "text": "[…]the trams floating slowly down Swanston Street, paper-sellers cutting open bundles with Stanley knives, the smell of ground coffee from the downstairs cafe,[…].",
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          "text": "He gripped his Stanley knife and swung open the door almost detaching it from its hinges.",
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          "text": "Manchester′s ‘golden boys’, Joy Division, had recently been devastated by the death of their singer, Ian Curtis: that good-looking, sad young man had made a spectacular exit by carving a smile on his face with a Stanley knife before hanging himself.",
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