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20th November 2008, 10:23 PM
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Location: Room 101, Glos. UK
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Anticipation: is it or isn't it somali?
just picked this up on ebay, described as a 'rare vintage native hunting knife'
 6 in. blade, 10 in. loa. looked like a somali billao dagger shaped blade from the scabbard, only pic on ebay, am looking forward to see the whole knife & blade. ebay item no. 300273343158 |
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21st November 2008, 08:53 AM
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Location: Czech Republic
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Hello, you can find variations of this knife in southeastern and southern Ethiopia.
Regards, Martin |
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21st November 2008, 06:44 PM
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I would say it started out as a billao dagger.
Lew |
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22nd November 2008, 02:02 PM
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it arrived today, after cleaning off the cosmoline on the blade:
 not exactly what i'd expected from the scabbard shape, but interesting. guard appears to be aluminum and horn spacer, brass, alumminum and horn grip with a heavier brass pommel, roughly hand checkered. |
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22nd November 2008, 02:50 PM
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Kronch
Click here and you will see Tim's bone hilted billao thats how yours started out. Someone decided to regrind yours into a standard dagger shape. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...=billao+dagger |
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22nd November 2008, 04:20 PM
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that's more what i was expecting, oh, well, still makes a nice dagger.
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