Turkish knife
 

Hello All!

I bought another Turkish tuorist knife. :D For the price it was as cheap as chips! The odd thing is that it slightly resembles the old Ottoman military issue knife. It is of good quality for a tourist knife . The materials are even similer being brass and both are carved with similer patterns. It is even about the same size as the origenl. Does anyone else see this resemblence, or is it my mind playing tricks on me? :confused:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

Mark....

As far as your mind "playing tricks" on you is concerned, I'll leave that between you and your psychiatrist. :p

As far as the resemblence is concerned, I noticed that too when I first saw this on eBay. I wonder if someone took the parts of a military Ottoman jambiya and "modified" it.

Hello Battara!

My psychiatrist says I am "fairly" normal. :D At least i am not the only one who saw the similarity, If the steel blade was replaced with a brass one and the hilt drilled with holes and glass insewrts put in, his seems plausable because the blade seems of differt brass type for lack of better words. If the case it whould make a very attractive cheap tourist piece with minimum work required to 'convert' it.

Mark...