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Old 4th August 2008, 07:49 PM   #1
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Default Knives: origin???

I got them in a moment of moral weakness....
They are just too pretty.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=360075222426

Now, the question: are they truly Tibetan or more Northern, such as Dzhungar, Buryat etc?
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Old 5th August 2008, 08:59 PM   #2
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I got them in a moment of moral weakness....
They are just too pretty.
don't need for a weakness moment
they are very attractive, it's true
even if in my case, they 'r not very old
I got them 15 years ago for 2 or 3 peanuts ... no more

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Now, the question: are they truly Tibetan or more Northern, such as Dzhungar, Buryat etc?
no idea ... so sorry

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Old 14th August 2008, 11:11 PM   #3
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Guys,
Sorry for bumping it up: bad manners
But I just cannot believe that nobody here knows more about these knives!
How about some effort to help an ignorant friend? ( I am being a bit manipulative, I know...)
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Old 14th August 2008, 11:25 PM   #4
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Well Ariel, the pictures aren't all that good to go on....however, from what i can tell, and i know little on the subject, Tibet could well be the origin of these knives. Here's a link to a thread on a knife i own which i believe to be Tibetan. Note the similarities in the hilt construction.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5669
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Old 15th August 2008, 12:50 AM   #5
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Those are from the Black Sea area Ariel.
No really they are Tibetan probably around Chinese takeover period
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Old 15th August 2008, 05:05 AM   #6
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Those are from the Black Sea area Ariel.
No really they are Tibetan probably around Chinese takeover period
South Ossetia?
I just saw the "pics" from e-bay... Indeed, horror....
But, still, I did not mean Dom's knives...
I'll have to make my own pics and post them. They look much older than Dalai Lama's silverware.
And, as the origin goes, I was thinking exactly along the lines of Ausjulius in the earlier thread.
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Old 15th August 2008, 04:25 PM   #7
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Ariel, here is another thread where we discussed this Bao An vs. Tibetan ID. I feel fairly confident that my example, and probably yours as well, are not Bao An and are probably Tibetan, but again, this is not my area of knowledge.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...=tibetan+knife
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Old 15th August 2008, 07:47 PM   #8
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I also think they are Tibetan. Link to Similar on Auctions Imperial site
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