"Bersagliere" pocket knife by COLTELLERIE BERTI

Every Knife produced at Coltellerie Berti, is the product of one pair of artisan hands. Whoever begins it finishes it. This is the essence of hand crafting in the Berti family, which since 1895 has insisted on the joy of possessing a real hand-made knife in the most authentic of artisan traditions. And so to declare it convincingly every Berti knife has the artisan’s initials cut into its blade.

Simple knife handle and simple spring. A variation of the Florentine knife it retains all the principal characteristics of the original knife. Its name comes from the Italian Bersaglieri (Army Rifle Regiments) who used the knife because it could be extracted very quickly when needed "on the run" due to the absence of the broad band guard on the Fiorentino.

Blade: stainless steel, mirror finish.

Handle: ox horn.

Total length of the knife: 18.89 cm.

Total length of the blade: 8.29 cm.

Weight: 79 g.

Additional description:

• laser cut blade and laser cut spring: laser-cut blade with special steel plate, with a high carbon grade, offers great cutting power. Every blade has been tempered at 1055 degrees Celsius and sub-frozen at - 80 degrees Celsius;
• simple spring in the Italian manner: it is a spring which makes the blade stable, but not fixed. To open or close the knife you must overcome the resistance of the spring, but this is not a locking device;
• ox horn handle: the horn used is always scrap from the slaughter of animals who have reached the end of their field working life. This allows full growth of the horns and allows to get the best horn quality without any direct or further sacrifice of animals. They only use the full tip which affords the best quality in terms of beauty and stability through time. However it should be remembered that horn is living matter, which undergoes changes through time.
  

Handmade in Italy.