Mystery knife 'Turkish' / Facon?

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by Dom

Hi
"Turkish" due to the very stylized, star and crescent
may be ... with a lot of imagination,
because this knife by it self, hasn't the characteristic of his supposed origin ... Ottoman

unless this is a Turk immigrant in Argentina in 18th, who has order it to an Argentinian blacksmith
this knife, very attractive, was longer belong to a "gaucho" than to a Turk, in my humble opinion

à +

Dom

Yes, presumably thats what the seller was going by, the crescent and star.
He's normally quite knowledgeable, so it threw me somewhat and I started to wonder if it WAS some strange variant from some far flung corner of Ottoman influence that I'd not seen before.