HEAVY DUTY 1950's Style 14" Open/ 35cm Italian Flat Guard Picklock  Wasp 5mm Classic Handmade by Renzo Pascotto with Mother of Pearl (Dolphin Stamp)

Features a 6 3/8" Mirror Polished Bayonet Styled Blade. Actual Overall Size Measures 13 1/2" overall Open (35cm). Measures  7 1/4" closed. Super Heavy Duty Piece with a thick 3/16" inch (5mm)  backspring, blade, and kickspring. When measured with the brass liners the backspring is more than 1/4" thick.

Body has the "Wasp Waist design" which was found on the higher end models of the 50's. ( The handle flares out slightly, (widens) approx 3/4 of the way down). This size has never been made before by Pascotto. 

Heavy Duty Sliding safety with extra heavy Brass Lined Nickel Silver "Flat Guard" Designed Bolsters . These knives are handmade and assembled the old way by Renzo Pascotto . The kick spring is a "slip-in" style. Genuine Mother of Pearl Handles. (Model shown is the exact one you'll receive).

Blade is marked on the tang "PASCOTTO RENZO MANIAGO ITALY". Backside is marked with the "DOLPHIN" logo which shows that the finest handle material was used on the knife and has the initials of the supplier of such. Blade is mirror polished with the bayonet grind. 

Picklock design; means you must take your index finger and thumb and pull back where the blade locks to unlock it, (most modern classics have a swivel bolster release design). (Older Model classics and Limited Editions feature the Picklock design closure). Weighs 12.9 oz. (Co-sign piece). 

New /Handmade from Pascotto. Very Limited production. First time this size was made by Pascotto, (and probably the last due to his age/health).

Note: The Pearl has some flaking around some of the pins and push button. The Italians, particularly   Pascotto,  use "sheet or laminated pearl" which is real pearl that is pressed on a sheet in layers then put over micarta or G-10.

This "sheet" of pearl which is very thin, is not polished or sealed by the Italians; the result is some flaking or crazing that forms around the pins and chips off in layers. (Kind of like a freshwater mussell or abalone shell). This is just the way they are finished in Italy, and it has always been this way, so this Pearl piece is being offered the way the master switchblade maker Pascotto built it.