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History and fascinating facts

May 24, 2022 1 min read

Sapper Troop Machete (model 1826)

GARNISHING: completely made of brass, robust, with a cross of straight hawks topped with an acorn. The knob is completely spherical and the handle is somewhat tapered, with...

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History and fascinating facts

May 24, 2022 1 min read

Engineer Sapper Machete (model 1826)

GARNISH: very shiny and elegant in relation to other specimens of similar destiny. Brass block grip with decorative cup knob, ferrules carved in two and three gallons respectively,...

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History and fascinating facts

May 20, 2022 2 min read

Sapper Troop Machete (model 1803)

GARNISH: iron stirrup, very of its time. Very simple, although a complete monterilla, a cross with a rooster and a protective ring are not missing. Wooden fist with...

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History and fascinating facts

May 17, 2022 2 min read

Taco or Montería bayonets (19th century)

5- Cleat bayonet. Spain, Isabel II “1859”. Wooden handle with gold brass fittings. Double-edged blade, with three edges, marked in a mustache “FABRICA DE TOLEDO 1859”, showing the...

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History and fascinating facts

May 17, 2022 2 min read

Taco or Montería bayonets (18th-19th centuries)

Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (swordologist) SEE BAYONETS SEE DAGAS

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Military history

May 17, 2022 1 min read

Machete for Artillery Troop (model 1802, variant)

GARNISHING: in brass, well designed and polished, with straight hawks, slightly directed cock at the tip. One with a stirrup handguard and the other without a handguard, both...

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Military history

May 17, 2022 1 min read

Artillery Troop Machete (model 1802)

GARNISHING: in brass, well designed and polished, with straight hawks, cock pointed slightly towards the tip, stirrup handguard, ring pommel and cylindrical grip with thick serpentine grooves. BLADE:...

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History and fascinating facts

May 12, 2022 1 min read

Machete, Squads of Catalonia (around 1851)

GARNISH: made of brass, robust and well finished, with an aggressive lion's head knob. Gallonated fist that rests on a conical base that, in turn, rests on a...

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Daggers

May 4, 2022 2 min read

Left Hand Candle Dagger (17th-18th centuries)

Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (spadologist)

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Daggers

May 4, 2022 2 min read

Left-handed, left-handed or mercy daggers (16th-17th centuries)

Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (spadologist)

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Daggers

May 4, 2022 2 min read

Daggers with Ears and Left Hand (15th-16th centuries)

Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (spadologist)

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Store news

June 15, 2015 1 min read

Collaborating with Kitchen Nightmare

Nightmare in the kitchen is a Spanish culinary reality television program, presented by Alberto Chicote, broadcast weekly in prime time on La Sexta. It has been so successful...

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