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?

don't need for a weakness moment :p
they are very attractive, it's true :D
even if in my case, they 'r not very old
I got them 15 years ago for 2 or 3 peanuts ... no more :rolleyes:

:confused: no idea :shrug: ... so sorry

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Dom

Guys,
Sorry for bumping it up: bad manners :o
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...)

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

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.

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

I also think they are Tibetan. Link to Similar on Auctions Imperial site