A. G. Maisey you have some brazilians facas over there, and mostly puņales criollos. The puņal usually have a drop point with a false edge, and a button where the blade ends, at the beginning of the hilt. No guards. There is silverwork from the Olavarriense school, and the Rioplantense School. The facas look like made from bayonets, but Iīm not sure. The last puņal criollo on the photo, below, has a piece of silver or alpaca covering the ricasso of the blade. This piece is called "empatilladura", and it has similar functions as in the yataghans: it is an ornament, but also a pice which gives more rigidity to the blade and absorbs part of the vibrations when you chop with the kife or parry another knife. It also serves to avoid rubbing the blade against the metal entrance of the sheat and secures the knife in there.
The blade from Adolfo Panizza & Cia is from the end of the 19th C to the beginning of the 20th C. Panizza was an importer.
The sixth is Scholberg, Joucla & Silva, a variant of the Broqua & Scholberg, a Liege, Belgium, blademaker. Probably the knife is from the fist quart of the 20th C
The seventh is a Juca, Tandil, an argentinean blademaker from the mid of the 20th C, still working today.
The others I canīt remember right now, I must search in Abelīs books.
My regards
Gonzalo
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