Just A Picture - Traditional Picture Show

^^^ Beautiful knife and great pics, Erik! I just received these today and had to post 'em somewhere - 3 ALOX Cadets:

 
Beautifully photographed Bose, and I'm loving those Alox knives...perhaps I need to buy one of those while I'm still above ground.:)
 
SAK Guy said:
Vintage early 70's Italian Stiletto in carbon. My late uncle's Skull and Crossbones ring dates from the 50's.

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Very nice! Love it! The clip blades they used in the 70s are just great, especially in carbon steel. Makes a more useful knife than the bayonet blade that is so common today. Yours looks great. In excellent condition, and I really dig the "simulated horn" handles -- they are classic in their own right. :thumbup:

Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes these! :cool:

Here's the shining star of my manual stiletto collection. I just LOVE the horn handles, and the reverse-angle plunge lines on both the primary grind AND the swedge. Carbon steel bayonet blade.

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And the stunning slab of horn on the reverse:

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puukkoman said:
Very nice! Love it! The clip blades they used in the 70s are just great, especially in carbon steel. Makes a more useful knife than the bayonet blade that is so common today. Yours looks great. In excellent condition, and I really dig the "simulated horn" handles -- they are classic in their own right. :thumbup:

Glad to see I'm not the only one who likes these! :cool:

Here's the shining star of my manual stiletto collection. I just LOVE the horn handles, and the reverse-angle plunge lines on both the primary grind AND the swedge. Carbon steel bayonet blade.

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And the stunning slab of horn on the reverse:

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Wow! Those scales are something else!!!! :eek: Beautiful knife!!!!! :thumbup::thumbup:

Thanks! I had other lockblade knives like these in the 70's. They were a "going to the movie" knife since the theater was downtown in older part of town. Shoot, being kids, we never used them for anything else but impressing our friends :D

This one actually has pretty decent steel and take nice edge. No clue on the maker but I wish I knew...I might look for another one.
 
As far as the maker... These knives were produced in Maniago, in the "cottage industry," so there really isn't one maker, per se (one house made the blades, another made the handles, another stamped the bolsters, another fabricated the mechanical bits, another did the assembly and polishing...). The same group of craftsmen made knives for many, many different retailers, stamping them to suit the client's wishes - you'll see all sorts of different stamps and logos, but these were all by and large made by the same folks. Your knife was made in Maniago, you can be sure.

Today, the Beltrame family is the foremost maker of Italian stilettos. Brothers Frank and Armando, uncle Renzo, and some other ancestors I don't remember... AKC is a company that manufactures as well, with several product lines (Falcon, for example), and contracting out to other companies as well.

The world of Italian stilettos is a vast, deep, confusing ocean. ;)

(Sorry for dropping this wordy post in the Picture Show thread... Here's a picture to make amends, of my Frank Beltrame imitation-tortoise 9" stiletto.)

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Thx Jeff! I have owned this one since they were first released. Bought it at a knife show in TN.
 
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