Kukri for coments

[Andreas Volk]

Originally Posted by fernando

Thank you very much indeed, Andreas.
I am starting to get an impulse to tell the seller that he has cheated me. He assured me that this piece was gathered by a certain collector by latest 1920 .... So this is an Indian kukri, not Nepalese, right?
And is its style called Sirupate ? ...
fernando

Hi Fernando.
Sorry if I caused some confusion here - the "sirupate" reffered to my bone handled piece. Sirupate are defined by a very slender blade profile where it
is hard to tell the "widest" part of the blade (belly).
My bone handled piece borrows a lot from this slender, thin waisted style -
I would not call yours a sirupate.
The style you show to my knowledge has been arround from between that wars until even after WW2.

When you mention 1900 to 1920 as the time when said collection was gathered - that looks like a very "rough" assessment to me as well.
As I said - I can't exclude that this if from the early 1920s (and spiral would not even exclude WW1).
I can't recall a WW1 kukri with the features shown by your piece - but spiral has handled a lot more kukri than I have.

those "soldier souvenir kukris" that show up during WW2 have been sold in India. To my information Nepal was still a type of "forbidden kingdom" then.
If those smiths manufacturing pieces for the indian basars where of nepalese descent or even nepalese immigrants I don't know.
Maybe another forumite has some info on the backround of these kamis.

With the scabbard being leather one pointer to these "indian WW souvenirs" goes away.

sorry that I can't be more precise - I understand the need for precise time frames and clear statements about the origin - but with your piece this is
hard to do.
All I can do is listing the features and refer them to pieces where I have info about origin and time of manufacture.

Andreas