Knife identification

[Rachel Busch]

Hi Everyone. I'm looking for any information on this knife. Thanks in advance.

 

[unwisefool]

It looks like a souvenir knife that you'd buy in a market while on vacation.

 

[tltt]

Faca de Ponta, it's one of the more popular knives in Brazil. It was for a long time associated with bandit culture, most specifically, this guy -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampiao .

Unless they are super fancy, they aren't high dollar knives, but they are neat looking, and have an interesting story.

 

[Rachel Busch]

Thank you everyone.

 

[Rachel Busch]

So I really liked the knife it is just so different. A friend who owns a gun/hunting store had it but didnt know much about it. He let me take it home to do more research. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. After looking it up you can see the similarities.

If I want It. What should I offer him for it? I've seen them go at a range of prices. Is there things I should at?

 

[tltt]

It looks pretty good from the pictures. A thing to check on them is that the handle is still tight, the handles are usually what goes bad on them. We can't discuss prices, but I don't think there's much harm in telling you that it would probably wind up about as a decent average hunting knife you find on Amazon or similar.

You'd really need a lot of fancy metalwork / silverwork or exceptional size to see a big price on them.

Here's a common type to judge yours against -

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-BR...955428?hash=item3feab95a24:g:zsMAAOSw2RdfemwH .

 

[DocT]

Faca de Ponta, it's one of the more popular knives in Brazil. It was for a long time associated with bandit culture, most specifically, this guy -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampiao .

Unless they are super fancy, they aren't high dollar knives, but they are neat looking, and have an interesting story.

That is a very interesting article. Thanks.