"Pattada Traditional" pocket knife - white resin - by COLTELLERIE BERTI

The Berti family has been making knives for more than one hundred years, since 1895. It all began with David when he opened his first workshop in Via dell’Oche in Scarperia, and the family tradition has continued without interruption ever since: David was followed by Severino then Alvaro and now Andrea is keeping the wonderful tradition alive. Remember though, producing knives just for the sake of inheriting a tradition is not enough, it is important to have been doing it for quite some time, just about a century!

The work of a sole craftsman. Signed with his initials. Confirming his craft and its value.

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.

Blade: carbon blade, not stainless; brass bolster.

Handle: white resin.

Additional description:

• without spring: this is a typical Italian kind of knife , simple, cheap and also more tolerated by the law. The blade is simply hinged onto the handle by a little nail and rests on another nail when you open it. This is why they are also called "knives with two hobnails". They are certainly the oldest kind of folding knives.
  

Handmade in Italy.