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Billman · 5th March 2011, 06:21 PM

Hi
Yes this one is also Italian - a mannaia (which can be any square bladed billhook or meat cleaver - I guess the usage is also interchangeable).
See http://www.leonelliattrezzi.com/inde...couperet_1.php although generally a pennato is the name for a double bladed billhook, and thus does not include mannaia...
The hand guard and leather handle are also found in tools from Austria and the western parts of Hungary, also parts of Switzerland and Germany... Pre 1900 many of these regions formed the Austro Hungarian Empire, so knowledge and skills moved within the region - ditto edge tool technology....

5th March 2011, 06:21 PM	#14
Billman Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 129	Hi Yes this one is also Italian - a mannaia (which can be any square bladed billhook or meat cleaver - I guess the usage is also interchangeable). See http://www.leonelliattrezzi.com/inde...couperet_1.php although generally a pennato is the name for a double bladed billhook, and thus does not include mannaia... The hand guard and leather handle are also found in tools from Austria and the western parts of Hungary, also parts of Switzerland and Germany... Pre 1900 many of these regions formed the Austro Hungarian Empire, so knowledge and skills moved within the region - ditto edge tool technology....