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Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:56 am
by Sharp carbon
Any help in identification would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 8:28 am
by Old Folder
Welcome to AAPK Sharp carbon.
Your bottom knife is known as a Puukko.
How bizarre
. Earlier today I posted the below information pertaining to such.
https://allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_ ... 59#p784159
Yours appears to have a little age. (That's not a bad thing)
Your leather sheath also has the four points toward the bottom to signify the four directions of the wind- North, South, East, West and is common on many Puukko sheaths.
Nice knife.
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:53 pm
by Sharp carbon
Thank you for your response and information. My father brought this knife back from WW2. He was in the North Africa, Sicily & Italy invasions.
Don’t know how it would have gotten that far south! Lol .
Thank you again.
Best regards
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:06 am
by Sharpnshinyknives
Welcome to the forum. Is there something engraved on that blade on the front side under the zig zag pattern? I can’ make it out when I enlarge it.
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:41 am
by Sharp carbon
Yes there’s something, but I can’t make out what it is.
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:02 am
by Sharpnshinyknives
I’m probably way off here, but seeing it makes me of a Gaucho knife. Could this have come from Spain?
Re: Requesting Knife identification
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 2:18 am
by Sharp carbon
I have no idea. I purchased it for $7.50 at a gun show with my father about 55 years ago. The guy I bought it from didn’t have any information about its origin.
The small bead type pommel appears to be brass.