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Coupla Vintage Pickers
A 28cm Rosco and a 23cm S.M.Co., both original, minty, unsharpened and uncleaned, far as I can tell, though the Rosco has a bug bite adjacent to the safety slot. The Rosco has a hint o' blade play and the S.M.Co. is tight as new; not a hint of wiggle, which is a first for me when it comes to vintage stilettos.
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Both really nice knives. Any idea of the year made?
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Absolutely gorgeous Rick! I love them both!
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Wow. they are both spectacular ! Thanks for the eye candy
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Thanks guys.
The Rosco was made by the Mauro Mario group, probably on the late side of their 1948-19[edit]56 production period. Dunno who supplied knives for S.M.Co, but it looks like another Mauro Mario to me. If anyone can narrow that down, please do.
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Super knives Corvus
They are in beautiful condition.You cant beat vintage when they are like that.
Great score mate.
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They are in beautiful condition.You cant beat vintage when they are like that.
Great score mate.
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Those are gorgeous.
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Corvus, they are my kind of picklocks,and I just sold two Rosco's,but I have some more,but not for sale.
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Beautiful knives!! Thanks for showing them.
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Rick, I agree. That's one of the things I'm learning myself on attempting to grow my vintage collection. They're ALL Mauro Mario!! It doesn't appear I'm collecting different knives, but collecting the same knives with only different tang stamps. This has been pretty confusing to me. Like you said: ROSCO being made by Mauro Mario, but the price of a ROSCO is double (or more) than a Mauro Mario. Don't mind my "logic", I'm just new at this! I've just come to the conclusion that it's the importer that placed the smallest order, makes them the rarest (and priced as such).
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Yep. I've read that the Mauro Mario group built at least 50% of the Golden Age stilettos, and probably the lion's share of picklocks through the '50s. Collecting vintage stilettos is a lot like collecting, e.g., baseball cards: the pictures vary, but when it comes right down to it, they're all pretty much the same ink pounded into the same ground-up trees. We collectively agree that certain tang stamps have greater value based solely on scarcity and mystique, but aside from a few limited production runs and prototypes from the '40s, the perceived value doesn't appear to correlate with empirical quality.JulesVane wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:59 pmRick, I agree. That's one of the things I'm learning myself on attempting to grow my vintage collection. They're ALL Mauro Mario!! It doesn't appear I'm collecting different knives, but collecting the same knives with only different tang stamps. This has been pretty confusing to me. Like you said: ROSCO being made by Mauro Mario, but the price of a ROSCO is double (or more) than a Mauro Mario. Don't mind my "logic", I'm just new at this! I've just come to the conclusion that it's the importer that placed the smallest order, makes them the rarest (and priced as such).
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SMCo. is a Mauro Mario knife.
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Really? Another Mauro Mario stamp? I knew (read) that GC Co (Guttman Cutlery Co. of NY) was. But, not this one. Heck...they're all Mauro Mario I guess! I keep telling my wife: You don't need Louis Vuitton and Coach handbags. Go to Walmart and get a nice $20 pocketbook. They're made by the same group of Asian kids anyway! But, she won't listen either!
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I just sold an 13" G.C. Co. (Guttmann) that was made by Mauro Mario.
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