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A good sing a long is always fun. If anyone else wants to post what their 1st of the year is I'm sure we all would enjoy it.

Got this from Italy a couple day ago, 13" swinger with a Renzo stamp.

Good to see you Panzefaust!! My first thought from the stamp and blade was late 60's then the more I looked at the knife...the shaved stag, folded safety, long cut safety. Basically looking at the handle makes me think a bit newer

Nice knife. It's from the late 70's to early 80's in my opinion. Not a very popular time frame for collectors but a cool era for knives. It was a tough time to be buying switchblades in and you really don't see a lot from this period.

Two very nice knives! I want to say that Walt started using this stamp about the same time the Latama Legend book was released. Has that been 5 years already, wow

I've owned a '79 and a '84 lincoln town car, enjoy they are awesome!!

As soon as I saw that one in SOI i knew I wanted a maltese, great knife and a very size.

Thanks for the comments guys!! Tom...I think they work, the construction looks pretty good for what it is, I can see the spring. I was hoping you had one loose :D Button Man...your thought process is exactly what I was doing when this came in the mail. Looking the the neon colors, the detail in the ...

Wayne, the book is called 'Coltelli d'Italia' and the pics are all pretty low res. There are two really fun parts to knives like this, finding them and then researching their story, you have a knife here that will be bringing you joy for a long time)

Some great stuff being posted lately so I thought I would post one of my recently found treasures) Picked this gumball display face up on ebay from a guy selling either an old gumball machine business or collection. I've never seen one of these before, any of you guys? Anybody want to guess the age?...

I couldn't find the fishtail knife that I was thinking of but did come across quite a few photo's of knives made in Scarperia that showed a fairly similar blade grind. Not saying your knife was made there just think it may be a good place to start your search. There is a cutlery museum in Scarperia,...

Hello Wayne! You made an outstanding pick up there! Never saw this one before, wish it wasn't such a rare treasure or I would ask you to send it to me for a week to check it out)) It could be Maniago but I'm not so sure, it does remind me of something I've seen before. I have some old Italian knife ...

One of the best joys of the hobby comparing knives like this. Definitely a different set of tooling used so probably a different cutler

Great knife! Besides being a super rare 13" Latama flatty I think the horn is very cool and unique, congrats!

These are great knives. Pardon the weird analogy but I see these as the Airstream of switchblades. Steel exterior with some nice stag paneling and everything you could ever want on the inside)

Beautiful knife, congrats!!