Italian OTF's

[novice]

I have nothing to add except my drooling.

[john]

If anybody else out there has some trapdoors with different handle materials, post some pictures.

Hi Roostershooter,
I always like when others post their knives on my threads. Here's a photo of my trapdoor stiletto. It's a rare trapdoor. The trapdoor is on the blade side and it also has the spring on the side of the handle, 23cm, black buffalo horn with some white swirls.
Enjoy and thanks for offering to have others post their knives here.
John



More photos can be seen here:
http://www.talkblade.info/viewtopic.php ... to#p219988

[roostershooter]

That is a great knife! Rare variety to boot.

[john]

That is a great knife! Rare variety to boot.

Hello roostershooter,
You should know that your knife your Trap Door is also a rare knife. Not many of these Trap Doors stilettos are left worldwide maybe 70 pieces and definitely less than 100.
John

[roostershooter]

Yes, I am very aware that both the knives I posted pictures of are hard to come by. They will both stay in my collection for a long time to come. I have not seen many of the trap doors scaled in other materials. Usually they are scaled in horn. The pearlex trapdoor was an ebay find years back.

[Tom19176]

John, how did you come up with those numbers? In the 70s I was in Italy and Switzerland and saw several of these knives and handled about 30 or more of them as a teen on vacation. I know they command a steep price ( As does a mint Rizzy), but I think your number seems low for how many are around? I am only basing this on how many I saw back then. There was a push cart in Rome out side St Peter's Square that sold only knives and I played with 10 of these on his cart alone trying to decide if I wanted one....You maybe right, but I don't know how you came upon a number of 70 to 100 when many were made and sold.

[JimBrown257]

I really like the side-levers because you don't have to press the metal door onto the tip of the blade to shut it.

[fastr19]

I saw a vendor with 2 of these for sale in Atlanta at the Blade Show.
That is the model like John's.