ARGENTINE KNIVES - VERIJERO KNIFE.

The Verijero knife.

It is a knife of so large minor and with the small blade. It is used in the necessities in which the facon knife, by its form, is very uncomfortable.

Verijero knife with leather sheat.

The Verijero knife was the used knife in the multiple tasks of the field, cuereado, castrated, pricked more of tobacco, etc.

The gaucho took habitually this small knife raises, that can have the size of one of table.

It receives that name to take in the waist, of the right side, the blade aiming towards ingle ("verija"), the edge downwards and the end towards showing outside oblique next to the dray.

Verijero knife usually has the size of a table knife.

The form of this knife is the one of the classic Creole dagger, that instead of its short contra edge, only presents a bevel or chanfle, and appears generally rich sheat with finish in silver, with most luxurious applications of gold.

This knives is called "faconcito” too.

Generally, being "luxe" of the countryman, their handle, and sometimes their case, was rich wrought in silver.

Verijero knife made by the artesans

It has versions that describes to this knife like a relatively modern element, that by the end of appeared the last century, without forgetting to us that this century has already more than 100 years. 

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