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Old 7th June 2024, 08:57 PM   #1
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Default Small car boot sale knife

Hi All. Found this at a car boot sale for a few euro.
Any idea what it is Is I am going Syria or Lebanon?
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Old 7th June 2024, 09:36 PM   #2
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Uh.....pictures please?
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Old 8th June 2024, 02:48 PM   #3
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sorry, here you go.
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Old 8th June 2024, 05:32 PM   #4
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Old 9th June 2024, 11:30 AM   #5
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Somalia
Yep.

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Old 9th June 2024, 04:15 PM   #6
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Thanks for the ID on this regards
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Old 10th June 2024, 11:07 AM   #7
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a small Jile , from the Afar , I had one too some time ago
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Old 10th June 2024, 11:30 AM   #8
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I've seen them called tooray daggers.
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Old 10th June 2024, 06:35 PM   #9
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a small Jile , from the Afar , I had one too some time ago
Do we know how to distinguish Afar blades from Somali blades?

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Old 10th June 2024, 09:50 PM   #10
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the Jile is used by both

this could be indeed also called a tooray
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Old 11th June 2024, 11:16 AM   #11
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this could be indeed also called a tooray
Jep, see for example here: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=tooray
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