Expensive Indian Khanjar

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by Robert Coleman

Here ya go. Is it just me or does the hilt look like it is on up-side down?

Robert

Looks upside down to me too, but the hilt looks like it would fit that way in the scabbard and not the other? So possibly just some weird variation to attract the eye of a wealthy traveller?
Blade looks OK, like the collar, be nice to see close-ups, scabbard looks like it's possibly late 19th/early 20th, hilt is very well carved, nice piercing, could be legit?

But to lay out that kind of cash on pictures of that quality