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mrcjgscott · 12th August 2015, 11:27 AM

Hello David,

Thanks for sharing your new acquisition, I am always pleased to see another person bitten by the kukri bug! You'll find that two is a good number to own, but three is better, and so forth.

I think we can safely rule out the 19th century. Your piece could easily have been made anywhere between the 1930's and the 1950's. Are the bolster and butt plate brass, or steel?

The scabbard certainly points to it being slightly later, but of course there is nothing to say that it is the original to the kukri, they are easily swapped or traded, or replaced: either when it was being used, or by a later dealer/collector.

A nice working kukri, sometimes known in the collecting community as a "villiager" as it is exactly what your average Nepali of the period would have carried during his everyday activities in and around the village.

It certainly shows evidence of sharpening, so this was not bought by somebody to hang on the wall, but rather on somebody's hip.

All in all a nice period piece, well done! (Now you'll have to show us your other kukri...)

12th August 2015, 11:27 AM	#3
mrcjgscott Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 189	Hello David, Thanks for sharing your new acquisition, I am always pleased to see another person bitten by the kukri bug! You'll find that two is a good number to own, but three is better, and so forth. I think we can safely rule out the 19th century. Your piece could easily have been made anywhere between the 1930's and the 1950's. Are the bolster and butt plate brass, or steel? The scabbard certainly points to it being slightly later, but of course there is nothing to say that it is the original to the kukri, they are easily swapped or traded, or replaced: either when it was being used, or by a later dealer/collector. A nice working kukri, sometimes known in the collecting community as a "villiager" as it is exactly what your average Nepali of the period would have carried during his everyday activities in and around the village. It certainly shows evidence of sharpening, so this was not bought by somebody to hang on the wall, but rather on somebody's hip. All in all a nice period piece, well done! (Now you'll have to show us your other kukri...)