Steel grip Kukri, info?

[spiral]

Yes thats a Nepali made hollow ground one, they often come with multiple small tools.

The design of the scabbard floral piece goes back a long way but your example with its original scabbard is post ww2.

probably late 1940s early 1950s. They always seem to be unused.

I am often disparging about most post ww2 kukris, but yours is indeed an example of good quality post ww2 work. I am a great fan of the practicleness of the hollow gounds sides combined with a convex edge. Some identical kukris came in quite elaborate silver presentation scabbards as well. The spine patterns on the blade usualy have brass inlayed in them?

Intrestingly it basicaly a precurser design of the Brit. army mk.5 kukri adopted around 1960.



Which sadley is usualy made without the finese of your piece. {lowest bidder wins on army contracts.}

I can see why you like that piece...

That said I would still rather trust my life to the steel handled Indian piece if I had to. But each to thier own.

Spiral