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17th December 2022, 10:15 PM | #1 |
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Thank you Ed. Also the written name could correspond to the Central American origin of the scabbard
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18th December 2022, 10:43 AM | #2 |
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Perhaps Ventura Monteiro. Brasil ? Machete de seringueiro; worker that extracts the latex from rubber trees ? .
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It looks central American to me. I see El Salvadorans working with very similar sheaths today. Check out the Imacasa web site. They make patterns for almost everyone including Brazilian ones that Fernando mentioned. The handle to me does look older as Edster says.
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20th December 2022, 11:09 AM | #4 |
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If the last name is actually spelled MONTEIRO is Portuguese; thus a Brazilian item.
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Of Brazilian use or manufacture? Would you place the age between 1940-1960 or after? I would imagine the sheath is not original. It is quite well built, being water molded, tooled and the frog is attached with little rivets that look like bits of nails. |
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20th December 2022, 03:17 PM | #6 |
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I was only focusing on the name; no knowledge to further judging .
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21st December 2022, 02:34 PM | #7 |
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Thank you all for your interesting comments.
I'm of the opinion that the name is a bit longer - I see it as Monterroza (acc to https://forebears.io/surnames/monterroza - it is found mainly in Colombia). The frog is attached to the sheath with many miniature nails, yet it holds firmly. The typeface seems older to me (I would guess that's how my grandfather wrote), so I think from the way the scabbard might be circa 1950s (?). |
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