Antique Sicilian Knives, Il coltello antico siciliano and 21 italian Switchbl

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"Hi,
I am glad to inform you that I have just released my new book "Antique Sicilian knives", a pretty epic book. It includes 330 photographs of antique Sicilian types and variants, old pictures of cutlers and knife grinders. The knives showed in the book will mostly be weapons for defence and offence. It has been a hard work, traveling across Sicily to find the last living cutlers of the island.
In this book I will describe and show all the knives of the greatest Sicilian cutler, the only one marking his creations in 1800. Nobody knew who he was and, through a perusal of the documentation of the Ellis Island foundation, I found out that he had emigrated (fled) to the US because of a family feud.
The book 160 pages, in limited edition - 250 pieces -, will be in English as well, with the coefficient of rarity for each knife.
Last, but not least, it will include an overview of 21 switchblades that had never been published, which have been found this year, after the publication of the previous book "Coltello a scatto antico italiano - Italian Switchblade". "
THE AUTHOR: Paolo Aldighieri
FB: @coltellidacollezione
Look author's first book: Italian Switchblades book,
Look author's third book: Ancient Knives of southern italy