O.k. so it's not a khukuri .....

not2sharp

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...but, a little variety can be fun. I found an old disk with pictures of this 19th century piece. This machete was made in 1858 by the Fabrica National de Toledo (Spain). It's too bad we haven't turned up a nicely self documenting khukuri like this. There is a very detailed picture of the factory in relief on the blade.

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There are some more pictures over here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=194493
 
Here is another version of the same sword. This one actually dates to 1863. The top one is a one of a kind exhibition piece, while this one is the standard production version.

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Bill, you're gonna change Uncle over from "Holy Toledo" to "Leapin' Lizards".
 
Bill,
Your lizards are leaping...


....And, a mere 100 years later the same factory was producing these little khukuri like knives for the Spanish Special Operations units.

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This one was made in Germany for Argentina and issued as the model 1891 machete sidearm.

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There was definitely plenty of innovation invested in these machetes. Kind of "those magnificent men and their chopping machines"

Here is a Swedish contribution from the same period. This one is usually called the Swedish Boarding Cutlass.

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Now if you would have been in the Swiss Military during 1842 you would be pretty old. But, you also would have been equiped to handle Rambo and Crocodile Dundee.

This is a Swiss Pioneer Sword of 1842.
 

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Leapin' Lizards! What great stuff. Many thanks for taking the time to post these pix. The dust bunnies are waiting!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by not2sharp
And, a mere 100 years later the same factory was producing these little khukuri like knives for the Spanish Special Operations units.

This one is great!

Thanks for posting!

Dan
 
Oh-oh, now I am going to have to keep an eye out for bunnies and researching ducks. :rolleyes:

Fortunately for the Swiss, they were able to replace that heavy pioneer's machete in 1878. Unfortunately, the replacement wasn't that much smaller...
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BTW, that's a 15 inch ruler in the background.
 

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Originally posted by not2sharp
Oh-oh, now I am going to have to keep an eye out for bunnies and researching ducks. :rolleyes:

Fortunately for the Swiss, they were able to replace that heavy pioneer's machete in 1878. Unfortunately, the replacement wasn't that much smaller...
n2s

BTW, that's a 15 inch ruler in the background.

DAYUM!!!! That's bigger than the Cherokee Rose, but it's not as purty.:)

Great looking old blades N2S!!!!
I have what I've been told is a 1909 Argentine Tanker's Short Sword, but I don't know if that's true or not.
It's not a bayonet because there's no place to mount it on a rifle. The really nice thing is the serial numbers on both the knife and scabbard match.:)
 
The German made Argentinian Machete Sidearm of 1909 (YVSA do you mean this one?)
 

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Just for comparison: This is the Argentinian 1909 bayonet.
 

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This is the Austrian model 1853 pioneer machete. I know this now, but more than a decade ago this single item forced me to get serious about antiques. I had found an unmarked example in a local shop that had been identified simply as a "cut-down French sword?"

So I bought it specifically to research the knife, but I had no idea that the search would go on for 7 years. It was another 5 years before I found an actual marked example, and another couple of year, before I came across Lucas's book on Austro-Hungarian Infantry (J.S.Lucas, Almark Publications, Middlesex 1973). Finally the knife was identified in chapter 7 of that book.

At least I was in good company. In June of 1992 an example of the knife was shown in Levine's Whut Izzit column - unfortunately, it was never identified.

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