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I have been following the thread on the "Karud" with much interest.
It has prompted me to dig this out and ask for name suggestions. Mail-piercing, double pointed, curved, single-edged short sword or long dagger should cover it. 48 cm / 19 ins long with a 38cm 13.75 ins single-edged blade which is approximately 1/4 ins thick near the hilt. Mail-piercing tip which is on the end of an "extra" or second tip. Heavily decorated blade with bird heads, lions ( or wolves ) and deer. The decoration is repeated on both sides of the blade. Hilt is steel with two colours of horn as grips. I think it is too good for a tourist piece so will call it a rich man's hunting dagger. All comments welcome. Regards Roy |
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These come from Afghanistan I believe and are fairly new.
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That tip looks very fragile to me to be a mail piercer. Looks like it would break off on first use. Otherwise an interesting blade.
Rich |
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I agree - looks unusable since it will break near the tip under stress and is more like a fantasy piece - maybe more like a modern custom dagger made to look old?
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I agree also. Serious mechanical drawback in the design.
I've never seen anything remotely resembling this sort of construct, which is not to say it doesn't exist, obviously, but as to utility, meh. |
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