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Comment by jeff on May 20, 2015 at 19:39

actually... if i am not mistakem.. that knife was made in germany by Weyersberg Brothers, and marked in spanish for export to cuba.. after the spanish american mar caba was a hotspot for alot of things.. before that Weyersberg Brothers was located in soligen germany.

In Memoriam Comment by John McCain on May 20, 2015 at 17:39

Jack- Hate to disagree with Shlomo but your knife is Cuban not Argentinian, I believe.

Weyersberg Hermanos translates in Spanish to Weyersberg Brothers-Weyersberg moved to Solingen-ohligs in 1925 so your knife is of that vintage. It was pretty common practice to mark tang and blade stamps for the Cuban market. In Cuba, they simply call this knife a large Bowie.The helmuted figure on the handle is Athena. Some of these knives also carried the stamp Viva Cuba if carried by a Revolutionary. 

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 20, 2015 at 13:51

Jack, Shlomo, and Michael.  Those are some really nice looking big blades!

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on May 20, 2015 at 13:40

Tobias--That Moosnshiner reminds me of a cigar cutter knife I had but the pivot was at the other end.

Jack--You have an Solingen made Argentine Gaucho's "facón caronero" that was carried under the saddle seat as opposed to in the belt.  Primarily a large camp knife

This is one of my Gauchos, a "criollo

Perpina & Porcel (http://www.perpinaporcel.com.ar/) Model 1 Bone handle

There is also Tandil (http://www.knivesoftandil.com/)

Comment by Jack on May 20, 2015 at 9:21

Good discussion!  This is a blade I picked up at an estate auction a few years ago. It's marked 'weyersberg Hermanos ohligs- soligen garantizado', & '923' on the other side.  Supposedly a 'hunting' blade from the '20s.

Comment by Michael Squier on May 20, 2015 at 8:12

The sword below was supposedly carried by a soldier in our American Revolution, on our side. 

Tobia I didnt know you were into Pirates too. I followed some wensite afew years ago but it ended, cant remember the name. Im going to have to check yours out. 

Comment by Michael Squier on May 20, 2015 at 8:09

Here is a rev war era hunting sword I have, not sure if its German or not.

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 20, 2015 at 7:01

Ah Captain Jack Sparrow.  Good movies but pretty bad history.  I was contacted by Disney for information on the 3rd installment.   The History Channel also used me for their web site promoting their real Pirates of the Caribbean.   When Disney called I thought for sure I was going to get a cease and desist letter due to the name of my page but they  had no problem.

Tim Powers, the guy who wrote the book, "On Stranger Tides", the book which the 4th POTC was written sent me an advanced copy so I could read and review it.  The book was indeed batter that the movie adaption.

My bibliography for the page is at:

http://pirates.hegewisch.net/pirbibl.html

Lots of good reading if you're into pirate history.  Most of the books were written  well before the POTC movie franchise launched.

Comment by Shlomo ben Maved on May 20, 2015 at 6:33

Actually it was the only picture small enough to fit our column width but it linked to that site.  Congrats on 20 years.

Although the terms I had known about with a passing interest in pirates from many years ago when a couple of our daughters got interested in them from Johnny Depp's character--actually just Johnny Depp.

Recommended books:

A History of Pirates: Blood and Thunder on the High Seas by Nigel Cawthorne

Pirates: Predators of the Sea: An Illustrated History

Pirates: The Complete History from 1300 BC to the Present Day both by Dr. Angus Konstam

Comment by Tobias Gibson on May 20, 2015 at 5:47

Shlomo, I hope the information on Boucan knives came from this web site

http://pirates.hegewisch.net/pirates.html  specifically this page: http://pirates.hegewisch.net/gully.html

The image shown is actually my art work from way back in 1995 when the page was first made.  Hard to believe my Pirates page it celebrating 20 years on the World Wide Web!

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