Argentine Gaucho Knife or Punales with Scabbard

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$95.00

Fine Original Knives, Daggers, Dirks, Bowies, Punales, Cuchillos, and Folders from The History Store (Knife, Dagger, Dirk, Bowie, and Folder)
Fine Original Knives, Daggers, Dirks, Bowies, Punales, Cuchillos, and Folders from The History Store (Knife, Dagger, Dirk, Bowie, and Folder)
Fine Original Knives, Daggers, Dirks, Bowies, Punales, Cuchillos, and Folders from The History Store (Knife, Dagger, Dirk, Bowie, and Folder)
Fine Original Knives, Daggers, Dirks, Bowies, Punales, Cuchillos, and Folders from The History Store (Knife, Dagger, Dirk, Bowie, and Folder)

Gaucho knife or punales from Argentina. White metal hilt and scabbard with yellow metal embellishments. Blade is stamped, "INDUSTRIA / JU-CA / TANDIL / ARGENTINA". Believed manufactured circa 1940s or 1950s.
Overall length in scabbard is ~14"; overall length out of scabbard is ~12-5/8"; blade length is ~7-3/4"; single-edged blade with an ~3" false-edge.
Scabbard appears to be of thin white metal, perhaps silver or silver-plate over base-metal; hilt is also of a white metal but could also be silver or silver-plate over base-metal, certainly not solid silver as it's not that heavy. The whole set weighs less than ~1/2 pound. Yellow metal embellishments that appear to be gold or gold plate; I have not tested the metal so I do not know what it is; however, it does not appear to tarnish. In any event, I make no guarantees.
Knife must be twisted slightly counter-clockwise to be removed from scabbard, no twist is required to place knife into scabbard; this appears to be by design.
Good condition overall.

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