Mine arrived today and, as suspected/predicted is unsharpened, something that will soon be remedied if it's to have any use as a SKOW (steak knife of the world! **grin**).
The leatherwork on the sheath seems likely to be Brazilian as well, making me suspect that these were likely the precursors to the Goucho knives before the fancy silver incarnation that we associate with them today.
If used as a working knife it would seem that the blades would be particularly nasty as a fighting weapon or an assasination type blade that could be used without anyone ever being the wiser until the perpetrator was long gone.
I suspect that here's a case where we are seeing the devolution of a weapon as opposed to the evolution that we normally think about?
Mike
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