2005 European catalog

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Neat to see foreign catalogs showing switchblades for sale. The index says 2005.

Looks like several Jaguar made stilettos and the original Massaro slim line guardless model before it was copied and sold out to the Chinese makers.

I’ve been doing a lot of digging and I’m going to do a write up of when the Original high quality Massaro slimlines were made and when they were copied as an inferior product by the Chinese about 2003-2005.

I wonder why the Italians stopped making them and farmed they out to the Chinese when they had the tooling in Maniago already?

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As a side note. France seems to have permanently banned switchblades from eBay France. Lots of knife crime over the past couple years combined with people turning in knives to try and buy them cheap from the sellers.

A guy named J Marc Rinn (along with a few American friends he associates with) was notorious for doing this and then flipping them to Facebook collectors. There use to be 10 switch blades a day on eBay, France, but guys like J Marc Rinn have ruined it for everybody.

I guess it’s highly illegal now in France.