Italian Vendetta?

[Ian]

Rob,

Your knife has a sheath that looks familiar, with the criss-cross pattern lightly embossed on soft leather. I have a Canary Islands' knife with a sheath of a similar pattern on soft leather. I'm not suggesting that your knife was necessarily made in the Canary Islands, but it might argue that your knife is perhaps Spanish in origin.

As Detlef has noted, the description of your knife as a Corsican vendetta example may be a little off. A number of Spanish and Italian knives are similar, and for that reason are sometimes designated as "Mediterranean." Perhaps that might apply here. Just to illustrate the similarity in styles, note the hilt on the second example shown in Detlef's most recent post. it has a brass ferrule at each end, a swollen central part and a small ball at the pommel. This hilt looks very similar to so-called Spanish ripol hilts.

Attached are pictures of my Canary Islands' knife and sheath.
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