Automatic Knife Experts from Texas Frosolone: The Italian Village That Has Made Knives for a Thousand Years A Town Built on Blades Frosolone is not on any tourist map. It sits at 900 meters elevation in the Apennine mountains of Molise — the second-smallest region in Italy, the one most Italians forget exis... Italian Stilettos Knife Collecting Knife History Switchblades Apr 20, 2025
Automatic Knife Experts from Texas The Switchblade the GIs Brought Home: How World War II Created America's Knife Obsession Italy, 1944: A Soldier Walks Through a Market Imagine the scene. You are a twenty-year-old private from Oklahoma, stationed in southern Italy after the liberation of Rome. You have been carrying an Ar... Italian Stilettos Knife History Switchblades Apr 15, 2025
Automatic Knife Experts from Texas The Schrade Presto: The First American Switchblade and the Man Who Built It The Patent That Started Everything In 1892, George Schrade — a German immigrant working as a toolmaker in New York City — filed a patent for a knife with a blade that opened automatically when a butto... Automatic Knives Knife History Switchblades Apr 5, 2025
Automatic Knife Experts from Texas The Navaja: The Spanish Folding Knife That Terrified Napoleon's Army The Working Man's Sword In the late 1600s, the Spanish Crown banned commoners from carrying swords. The edict was aimed at reducing dueling and street violence among the lower classes. It had the oppo... Knife Collecting Knife History Switchblades Mar 28, 2025