Rare folding knives for your enjoyment

[broadaxe]

Isn't the straight one - dagger shaped - a Portuguese knife?

[fernando]

Originally Posted by broadaxe

Isn't the straight one - dagger shaped - a Portuguese knife?

I am afraid i don't know what you mean, Broadaxe .
The three knives posted in #1 are all Portuguese ...

[broadaxe]

I was too hasty. This one - isn't it strictly Portuguese type? I have a modern made one of identical form.

[fernando]

We may assume that the example posted was made in Portugal but the model may not be strictly Portuguese.

[Chris Evans]

Hi Fernando,

Originally Posted by fernando

We may assume that the example posted was made in Portugal but the model may not be strictly Portuguese.

I am inclined to agree with you for its styling suggests French provenance, though it could have been made in in that country for the Portuguese market, or merely a locally made copy.

Cheers
Chris

[fernando]

It is visible that what i said in my post #6 that Portuguese navalhas didn't have the ratchet system, is nonsense; you just have to look at the example i posted in my very first sample. And now just to reassure it, here are excerpts of a work written by Alberto Pimentel in 1904, where the scenario in context let us know what it was about. See how the beg. XIX century Lisbon ruffians behaved, their 'tools' being the Fado guitar and the Santo Christo, the large pointed navalha with the 'triple theeth on the spring', which they hid in the short jacket sleeve.


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[Chris Evans]

Hi Fernando,

Originally Posted by fernando

It is visible that what i said in my post #6 that Portuguese navalhas didn't have the ratchet system, is nonsense; you just have to look at the example i posted in my very first sample. And now just to reassure it, here are excerpts of a work written by Alberto Pimentel in 1904, where the scenario in context let us know what it was about. See how the beg. XIX century Lisbon ruffians behaved, their 'tools' being the Fado guitar and the Santo Christo, the large pointed navalha with the 'triple theeth on the spring', which they hid in the short jacket sleeve.


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Thanks for this post, seems like the customs of the rougher gentry were not all that dissimilar from that of Spain.

Cheers
Chris