Coricama red dot Kris stiletto knife

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Coricama red dot Kris stiletto knife

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Greetings everyone, today we came across this beautiful Italian Coricama stiletto Kris knife... I cannot locate another model online, please help us to ID this knife model, it's age and value. Thank you in advance.
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ppb76epai wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:07 pm Greetings everyone, today we came across this beautiful Italian Coricama stiletto Kris knife... I cannot locate another model online, please help us to ID this knife model, it's age and value. Thank you in advance.158005408640915810.jpg158005408640915810 (5).jpg158005408640915810 (4).jpg158005408640915810 (3).jpg158005408640915810 (2).jpg158005408640915810 (1).jpg
Neat knife. They used to be a lot harder to find but more and more turn up. The blade has a lot of rust and the safety is missing. You won’t make a lot off it. But it’s worth what others are willing to pay. Everyone seems to always want the steel lined ones
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Actually that will clean up pretty well and a 13" Kris Coricama is quite valuable.
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wow man awesome find :) very cool i make t-shirts and magnets post cards etc...with the Coricama logo or ad whatever it is lol .

im pretty sure your knife was made sometime in late 1940's to mid 1950's , someone here im sure has more info then i can pass on to ya on exact year it was made .
made with brass liners and brass pins, carbon steel blade , brazilian cowhorn handles

kriss blade Coricamas are pretty rare even in condition its in i think at auction you would get good amount for it , it does need restored and needs to be disassembled to do that correctly, it has dent in button needs new safety cap then totally cleaned , but restored would bring more than condition it is in now for sure . value on low end i think around 500 on hi end maybe 1000 bucks , restored value hard telling , this is a rare knife for sure .
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It’s a super sweet piece. A light clean up with simichrome and soldering a safety cap on and it’s going to be as nice as anything seen. I wouldn’t take it apart if it was mine. It would look pretty amazing with the right amount of TLC.
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Re: Coricama red dot Kris stiletto knife

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That is a Holy Grail Knife....very rare and very valuable!

Congrats on an awesome find!
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Can you post some photos of the back scale on the knife?
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That's a great knife and I would leave it as is.
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Panzerfaust wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2020 3:57 am That's a great knife and I would leave it as is.
well said,so would I.
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Wow.. Great knife, very hard to kind & very valuable, just like it is worth about 3,500.00 Great Score!!
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Whoo-wee!
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Looks much better to me. Crazy cool horn.
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Interesting how it changed owners in 3 days!
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Bill DeShivs wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:10 pm Interesting how it changed owners in 3 days!
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This must have never been carried a day. The inside kickspring is shiny and mint. A bright shiny mint original finish. Fires like a rev’ed up CANNON!!
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