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I think you might be lysdexic!
Bill

Slappy (funk?)
Linder of Solingen sells real knives very similar to yours. A little pricey, but real works of art like they made at the turn of the century (the 1890- 1925 period.) You should get one. You'll love it.
Old bassist Bill

Try Chad at Nemo Knives.
Bill

Spring steel is, by it's very nature, high carbon.
Bill

Bayonet blades can not be properly sharpened. They are not meant to be sharpened. The bayonet blades from the 1940s and 1950s were not sharpened. The blade design is wrong for sharpening. Flat ground blades can be, and are, sharpened. Damascus and ATS34 will take and hold an edge.
Bill DeShivs

Sorry, Al, but gotta correct you here... The modern knives use carbon steel back/kick springs.
Perhaps the reason they protrude is because they are thinner than the old ones?
Bill

I can't post pics here, but there were several knives made with shell pullers on the rear. Most had clip-point blades and a ring-pull or fulcrum release lever. They were button-opening knives. The lever lock shell-pullers had the pullers on the front.
Bill

I would think that the hole is for traction, and possibly for lanyard use, though I have never seen that stated. The Europeans are very tradition-oriented people, and this is the way most have always been built. It works well, looks traditional- so I suspect that is the reason. Plain levers are slip...

Vini
The plastic used on most Italians is not injection moulded, but cut from sheets, and drilled/routed. It appears to basically be casting epoxy, colored and cast into sheets, surface milled.
Some of the cheaper italians may use injection moulded scales. Your answer may be correct for those.
Bill

Nice try, but the scales are drilled after the moulding.
Basically, pearlex is a clear plastic, mixed with colorings that are not thoroughly mixed-leaving the swirls. Heat has nothing to do with it.
Bill DeShivs

Despite all you kiddie's bowel habits, the knife was made by either A. Beltrame, or F.Beltrame.
Bill DeShivs

Well, not to contradict any of the resident experts here.... but the knife in question, if it has shell pullers on the rear, is a fairly rare knife. It is a button lock, not a lever lock, and was sold by the Zoppis company in the late 1960s-early 1970s. If this description is correct, the knife is r...

I am told that Indiana cutlery produces nothing, and is only a distributor.
Bill DeShivs

Tessa 11" long, open; brass bolsters & lever; steel liners; buffalo horn scales, steel pins. If this description fits the knife, it's Indian. No one knows the story on these, but they have been around since at least the 1960s. In good condition they are worth about $150 US. The crude construction of...

These knives were made in India. They are not English.
Bill DeShivs