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Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:45 am
by StHubert
All,
Newbie to the forum and interested in learning more about knife in the pics. My Dad got it in Italy while living and working there in the early 60's. It has not worked as an auto since i can remember from childhood and he kept it in his tackle box mostly. He always called it his 'Italian hunting knife' and I think it reminded him of his Italian ancestry from Calabresia that immigrated to the US in the early 20th C - They were a bunch of hardened but happy farmers, hunters ( and moonshiners!)
I want to get a better idea about the maker (see mark - a flying bird in a circle) and with the usual 'INOX' on the other side. I've not found one exactly like it yet , but some similar models said to be from the 'Maniago district'. It's also started a little bit of a shell puller /auto collection with me as I research to learn more about it.
I'd really like to connect with a reliable restorer of these types of knives and get it fixed up . Any recommendations ?
Thanks
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 2:21 am
by Samb
Italian in my opinion.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:27 am
by Madmarco
StHubert wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:45 am
All,
Newbie to the forum and interested in learning more about knife in the pics. My Dad got it in Italy while living and working there in the early 60's. It has not worked as an auto since i can remember from childhood and he kept it in his tackle box mostly. He always called it his 'Italian hunting knife' and I think it reminded him of his Italian ancestry from Calabresia that immigrated to the US in the early 20th C - They were a bunch of hardened but happy farmers, hunters ( and moonshiners!)
I want to get a better idea about the maker (see mark - a flying bird in a circle) and with the usual 'INOX' on the other side. I've not found one exactly like it yet , but some similar models said to be from the 'Maniago district'. It's also started a little bit of a shell puller /auto collection with me as I research to learn more about it.
I'd really like to connect with a reliable restorer of these types of knives and get it fixed up . Any recommendations ?
Thanks
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I don't recognize the bird stamp St.H, but I agree with Sam that it looks Italian. In fact, AGA Campolin makes a very similar model that I think they call a "Calibro", and the Maniago connection makes sense. Keep checking back to this thread as more guys will be along who will know more about it. Also,
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Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 5:54 am
by Bill DeShivs
Your knife was made by Lepre in Maniago, Italy.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 7:34 am
by zed6309
Defantly Italian as said, Bill DeShivs is your man for restoring this
I restore knives but I'm in the uk and I've only restored one Italian switchblade as there banned in the uk since 1959
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 6:55 pm
by Bill DeShivs
I'm a factory authorized Lepre repairman.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:28 pm
by doglegg
Bill DeShivs, is your man for resto.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:25 pm
by btrwtr
Very nice old auto.
I can't see that this knife is a shell puller. If so it would have some type of mechanism for pulling the hot shot gun shells from the breach of a gun that doesn't auto eject the shells. The knife at the bottom of this picture has 12 and 16ga pullers built into the fixed guard. Some were folding mechanisms.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:33 pm
by StHubert
Pictures don't show it too well. Puller on the handle bottom. I don't see that position as often as on the blade end.
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:49 pm
by Madmarco
btrwtr wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:25 pm
Very nice old auto.
I can't see that this knife is a shell puller. If so it would have some type of mechanism for pulling the hot shot gun shells from the breach of a gun that doesn't auto eject the shells. The knife at the bottom of this picture has 12 and 16ga pullers built into the fixed guard. Some were folding mechanisms.
All very nice knives Wayne!
Is the 2nd from the top a 10" oal Hubbie?
Thx!
Re: Help in ID and Possible Resto of Italian Shell Puller
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:18 pm
by btrwtr
StHubert wrote: ↑Thu Dec 09, 2021 2:33 pm
Pictures don't show it too well. Puller on the handle bottom. I don't see that position as often as on the blade end.
Thanks for cluing me in. A puller for sure. I see it now thanks!