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Feb 08, 2019
Coffee-table book of museum-quality pieces
PROs: A significant amount of historical research is obvious here. Discussion of which companies actually manufactured and which were simply distributors; timeline; ricasso stamps; and much more. As soon as I got the book I started reading and didn't put it down for 90 minutes. Lots of great photos of early and very hard-to-find knives.
CONs: No price guide or values. Almost zero info on inspection, parts terminology, and grading -- for overwhelmingly impressive info on these aspects, see 'Antique American Switchblades' by Mark Erickson. All photos are full size; thus, knives of 13" and over stretch over two pages, and since the book cannot be flattened without breaking the spine, you're looking at an image stretching over two separately convex pages. This distorted depiction of the knife makes it tough to get an intuitive impression of the piece.
Virtually no information on knives made after the 1960s -- there is a chapter titled "1958 - 1970" with photos that are largely of scarcer items, prototypes, and so forth. After that is a chapter on the 'Indiana' company (a distributor) which sold knives from any number of small suppliers during the 1960s; this chapter has a good variety of knives pictured. But! -- nothing from around 1970 onward, and that's a half century of production that has been utterly ignored.
There is no index, which makes things difficult if you can't recall exactly where you ran across a passing reference to something. And I would have greatly appreciated clear, simple drawings of various internal mechanisms, showing exactly how the ring-pull deployment operated, or the coil spring, or the lever-open. Also, more than a few photos show knives with faint ricasso stamps which I couldn't interpret; it would have been nice for these to have a small thumbnail-size close-up of the stamp next to the text for each of these, so we could tell exactly what the markings are.
I do not wish to marginalize the time and effort that was spent on research for this book; it must have been enormous. I'm certainly not sorry that I bought it, and there's no doubt that I will refer to it repeatedly. However, I find that I can more accurately characterize the book by listing what was left out, rather than what was included.
The book should more properly be titled "EARLY Switchblades of Italy"; and I came away with the feeling that it's largely a proud display by the authors of their rare and impressive finds, that the rest of us can never hope to own. The book is of little assistance to those of us who are now working to build our collections with what is currently available in the collecting world; almost all of which consists of knives from the 1980s and up, not ultra-rare 70-year-old museum pieces.
May 07, 2019
extremely flimsy; also unsafe
0 of 1 found this helpful As flimsy as it is possible to make. I doubt that this will hold up very long, so I went to the local discount store and paid $4 for another sieve.... also made in China, but looks like it will hold up longer than a week. Can't say the same for this one. You get what you pay for.
BTW, this has a sharp corner where the metal band is (poorly) joined; somebody could easily get cut and draw blood when using or washing this item. I don't regard this sieve as safe to use.