African Shona Dagger For Comment
 

Hi Guys

This arrived today a nice Shona dagger with a 10" blade. The scabbard is that nice two tone wood you often see on knobkerries and it is bound with copper braided rings. Let me know what you think? I cleaned up the blade and it seems two tone also one side light the other is darkened.

Lew

Great knife with what looks like no unravelling of the copper weaving. Tim

Tim

All the braids are nice and tight. How old would you think the dagger is?

Lew

It is a very pretty example and the black and white blades of these knives are most attractive. From what I can see I should think it is no earlier than the 1930s. Tim

Great dagger Lew. I also think, like Tim, that the age could be around 1930.

Hi Flavio

I agree 1930s maybe mid 1920s the earliest. The patina on the wood matches a large knobkerrie that was dated 1920s it is of the same type of wood as the dagger.


Lew

Hello Lew, if i'm not wrong this kind of wood is called ironwood.

Flavio

It's either ironwood or African blackwood either way it's very dense and hard and takes a nice finish.


Lew

Very nice Lew!

Steve