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The first pic two messages up from this one has a curved knife in the middle (to the left of the Maltese Cross). I have that knife. I have a hard time believing it is Italian. It's pretty clearly either Pakistani or Indian.

The Gemini man better be using the double action 110.

That library is pretty cool. I wish I would have been able to order stuff like that when I was a kid. All I had was that little ad where you could get the NATO OTF (the "stiletto") or the standard Italian side-opener (the "switchblade").

Great set up. It's odd to see a collection start like this. Usually collectors start with the cheaper and not so special stuff before moving on to those ones.

The decline of Sharper Deals auction is almost as disappointing as the decline as the quality of a show whose name we will no longer speak. Remember how great they both were five years ago? Don't get me wrong, SD just had some unfortunate circumstances; I do not favor executions like I do for certai...

I think you mentioned the Coricama had a dovetail. If so, that would probably be the oldest.

Nice. The smokey (whatever you call those) scales on the thrird from left are rare but the swirly stuff on the far left are really great. I usued to have a bunch of JPLs but the only two I kept were a smokey scale 11" and a steel liner 7" with plated bolsters. Then I kept the two REM stamped ones. A...

Standard 9" Rizzuto. If I could take a look at it, I might be able to tell if it was a better one or one of the more flimsy ones (which I assume would be the later ones). It looks like it's in good shape.

How do those older Italian DA OTFs compare to others? Are they like the cheaper NATO types or are they more like the quality American ones?

If you can take out (and replace) the top bolster pin and the two bottom bolster pins there are a few simple things you can do to make those ones fire much better.

Post them here where we can all see them and they will be saved for posterity (or at least for however long the image hosting sites decide to honor their commitments).

Were B.Svoboda stamped picklocks the only ones that had wood scales?

Are you saying the dark horn does not lock open?

Post more pics. I'd like to see more of those old English parts if you have any of those.

I recently picked up a similar German lever. It's a little different in that all the metal is steel (except for the NS lever). It has no "Springer" type word at the bottom bolster. On the tang, it has an upside-down "Overland/Germany/Solingen" stamp. On the blade there is a etch that while being nic...