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Old 17th November 2006, 08:18 PM   #1
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Default Another Bhutan Dagger

Just picked this up on Ebay. Hair pin pattern steel blade and an interesting horn hilt.


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Old 17th November 2006, 10:19 PM   #2
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Very nice Lou, Hairpin folding I always realy like.

I wonder if its yak horn?

I have never found an example I know to be 100% identified as such. But there must plenty of it thats been used.

Any particular texture to the horn?


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Old 17th November 2006, 11:04 PM   #3
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I will have the dagger in a few days will let you know then.

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Old 18th November 2006, 12:45 AM   #4
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Cool, I look forward to your in hand perusal of it.

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Old 24th November 2006, 06:18 PM   #5
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The dagger arrived today and it's a beauty I Restored the leather with a dab of Kiwi brown shoe polish. Btw the spine is .250" thick. Spiral I think the horn is from the bharal sheep and not yak seems like rams horn to me.




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