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Caronero...under the saddle Verijero..near the groin Facon...in the back

welcome ,nice marlin spike collection

zed6309 wrote:welcome ,nice marlin spike collection

asigarza wrote:Hi Eustace, please to meet you.
I'm not an expert but give me a few days and will try to help you

Regards

Gracias de antemano, amigo!

Hello Eustace, good news and bad news....

the name Mieres refers to an old armory of the City of Buenos Aires, regarding the stamp speak with recognized specialists in the subject and there is no record of it, therefore it is a very rare piece. Surely it has been manufactured in Europe for that armory, probably at the end of the 19th century beginning of the 20th century. If you could get better pictures we could have more certainties.

Eustace wrote:

asigarza wrote:Hi Eustace, please to meet you.
I'm not an expert but give me a few days and will try to help you

Regards

Gracias de antemano, amigo!

Santiago, this is great! I just didn't know where is the bad news. For me, this is the most interesting part of collecting - the identification and history of the knife.
The knife is about 340 mm long. I can't say with absolute precision because a few millimeters from the top is broken. Handle 110 mm, 230 mm blade. Blade thickness 1.5 mm. Width in the widest part 40 mm. Full Tang. The grind starts at about 5 mm from the cutting edge. At the top of the blade there is a false edge, starting at about 60 mm from the end. The wood of the handle is slightly wider than the metal part of the handle.The wood looks like bamboo, but I may be wrong. The rivets have bronze pads. In my opinion, the steel is high-carbon, good heat treatment and high hardness.

Thank you, Santiago!

Here are some of my knives from south of the border. While the barbeque set and knife and fork pairs are from Argentina I believe the facons and verijeros are from Brasil.

Here are some of my knives from south of the border.

Very nice examples. What metal are the handles?

Dennis

deo-pa wrote:

Here are some of my knives from south of the border.

Very nice examples. What metal are the handles?

Dennis

They are silver plated but I am not sure what the base metal is. I doubt they are solid silver as there are no hallmarks.Four of the smaller ones came in their original boxes from e-Bay. I won one of them at auction and the seller said she would sell me the others for the same price.If I recall correctly I paid $15 apiece for them.

Hi
The barbeque and knife/fork sets área from Argentina. The other are from south Brazil.
The handles looks línea nickelsilver but I'm nota sure. I will ask to a friend about ir
Nice knives