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San Michele Italian Items

San Michele Italian System Weapons

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All the blades for sale on this website are custom made to order one at a time and commissioned one at a time per order. Be advised before ordering there are no refunds or exchanges for any of these custom-made blades and ordered works for any reason.

The Asp Viber (more details)

The Frosolone Knife (more details)

Hidden Weight Hat

I want to introduce one of the self-defense tools of San Michele. I am the first to offer the authentic "loaded” traditional Italian style hat that is pronounced “goop-ah lien” in Sicilian. This is a genuine leather hat with lining and not fake leather that is really a fabric. The hat has some elastic gussets so it is one size fits all. A special leather pouch which contains a full 3 ounce saucer shaped weight is sewn into the back of the hat in the lining and you do not feel it is there when wearing it.

However should someone attack you, with one move of the hand you have a very effective means to defend yourself and possibly even use to fend off and cause an attacker to drop a knife they may be attacking you with. Once you know how to use this in San Michele it can smash bones in the hand and more. It is stylish, keeps the sun and weather off, it is hard to blow off of your head in the wind, protects against forehead cuts in a knife attack which can blind you with blood in the eyes and always there if you need it.

Another historical fact on these hats is, my teacher, Don Vito has informed me that many of the old Sicilians here, referred to these hats as a Stiletto hat. The reason is, in the front part of the peak, the hat has a large area that perfectly holds a stiletto around five inches closed which many of them used for just that.

When you grasp the front of the hat with your hand to remove it for self-defense, the inner stiletto becomes a sort of handy handle, as you can see from the shape. This helps swing the loaded hat and if needed the knife, with practice it can quickly be slung into the free hand. It was not suggested to use an auto knife unless the knife had a good safety and it worked well to keep from grasping the hat and having the blade open if the button is depressed. Perfect place to carry a spring assist or other smaller knife that is out of the way and you will hardly know is there, make sure it is legal to carry like this where you live and whatever type you place in the hat is also legal to carry.

DVD 3 covers the use of the “goop-ah-lien” in advanced fighting. These are handmade as ordered so get your order in now to get it as soon as possible.

St Michael Divination Chain

Described in Benedicaria Master Edition by Vito Quattrocchi and in this book on Amazon.

In the old folk Magic, Benedicaria of Italy a special oracle to get answers and speak to various Saints is often used called the "Chain of St Michael". Here we have duplicated this rare item in pure silver. Each highly detailed medal of St Michael the Archangel is in high detail. The chain is also solid silver as is the sword of St Michael. Shipping outside the USA is not included.

Brass Version - $75.00