Antique Mexican Folding Curved Fighting Knife or Seca Tripas with Horn Handle
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Antique Mexican Folding Curved Fighting Knife or Seca Tripas with Horn Handle
Handmade - Mexico early 1900s
Size: 8.5 cm closed
Size: 15.5 cm open
Unique hard to find pocket Saca Tripa folding knife from Mexico. Horn handle. Not restored left in antique original condition with much Patina Originality nice rare piece for the collection.
The Mexican tranchete or sacas tripas usually measures 15 to 35 cm in blade and is called a gut cutter because it is usually held in a half-circle cut with the wrist.
It is used for agricultural work.
It possibly originated in Aguascalientes during the French invasion and spread to all of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
