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13th April 2012, 09:17 PM
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Le Stylet Corse
hello together
would like to present my small collection of Corsican Stylette. The little one has an overall length of 17.3 cm the largest 28.5 cm |
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14th April 2012, 05:58 AM
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Great looking daggers Chregu !!! Thank you for sharing. Could you tell what the age is on these and could you also show close ups of the hilts ? Again, great daggers and congratulations.
Robert |
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14th April 2012, 04:01 PM
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Nice vendetta daggers Chegru. A good selection indeed. Congratualtions.
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15th April 2012, 05:36 PM
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Hi
the best book in this regard: "Petite Histoire du stylet Corse" by Jean-louis Leccia. In this book, this type of stylet, called "a la genoise" (Genoa, Italy) called. the handle materials are different. The two are black wood and the fittings are brass, nickel plated brass (?) The small knife is made of mother of pearl, the fittings are made of silver, which is also engraved with floral decoration. the old? difficult: the little book is illustrated and dated between 1880 - 1920. with the big brass, 1800-1850 the average 1880-1900 |
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