Folding Ensign Carbine Tropicale n°6
Houghton-Butcher
Metal body, brown Russian leather bellows
Device constructed of bright bronze varnished metal, "Florentine" type.
Houghton produced some very fine tropical folding knives, all characterized by an "oxidized copper" coating (Florentine bronze according to McKeown, therefore a brass with 85% copper and 15% zinc) and a Havana leather bellows.
Folding Ensign Carbine Tropical n°6 c.1925
Folding Ensign Carbine Tropicale n°6
Houghton-Butcher
Metal body, brown Russian leather bellows
Device constructed of bright bronze varnished metal, "Florentine" type.
Houghton produced some very fine tropical folding knives, all characterized by an "oxidized copper" coating (Florentine bronze according to McKeown, therefore a brass with 85% copper and 15% zinc) and a Havana leather bellows.
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