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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Nova Scotia
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I ran across this little utility knife in an antique mall and the price seemed right so i bought it. 9" overall in the sheath, blade alone just under 4", 7 1/2" with the hilt.
The hilt grips could be ivory or some kind of horn. It gets translucent near the ferrule so it doesn't look like bone to me. I don't know what the black material is nor the "white" metal, but there does seem to be some copper involved. The sheath seems to be some kind of low grade silver or maybe just nickel silver with a band of ray skin in the middle. Any ideas as to place, date, usage would be welcome. ![]() ![]() |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Room 101, Glos. UK
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looks tibetan.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: What is still UK
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Mongolia? I like the scabbard.
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: USA Georgia
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Never seen one like it, but I would agree with Wayne. Tibetan side of the Chinese border.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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I have one that is very similar that a friend collected from the North West of China in a region of the Tibetan plateau that is outside the former border of Tibet. While it is inside China itself, it is an area that strangely has fewer Han and recent Han Chinese influence than Tibet itself. I am seeing more and more pieces coming out of far eastern Tibet/far western China, so I suspect that modernization and development are now reaching the area. In the early to late nineties when I had friends traveling in the region, men still commonly carried swords at their sides.
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Arms Historian
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
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Tibetan puuko.
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