Knife (?) with silver inscriptions

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Originally Posted by thomas hauschild

12 cm blade , in total 29 cm. Blade thickness at the spine is 2,5 mm thickest. Very thin and sharp blade. I haven‘t cut (or tasted) a bethel nut in my life. How hard are this kind of nuts ?

Best Thomas

P.s. Detlef I‘m fully vaccinated since month. Let‘s meet and put our fingers on our new acquisitions.

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for the measurements! I like this knife and like Ian I guess that it could be a betel knife.
Betel gets used in different degrees of hardness of the nut, in India for example gets used the hard nut, on Halmahera it gets used when fresh, so not very hard.

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Regards,
Detlef