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Old 5th August 2013, 05:03 PM   #1
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Gentlemen,

Thank you very much for the quick responses. Here is hopefully a better photo of the poem.

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Old 7th August 2013, 07:14 AM   #2
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Thanks for the photo. Translation remains the same!
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Old 9th August 2013, 01:12 AM   #3
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Thank you very much Eftihis. Why are these inscriptions on Greek knives so elegiac? Are they references to the Ottoman yoke or simply love related?

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Old 9th August 2013, 02:22 PM   #4
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Hi Teodor,
Have a look at this past thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=kydonia
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they are still making these inscribed knives in chania, crete. an elderly knife maker, Apostolis Pachtikos, made these:

not mine.



mine.


i gather he is actually a turk who immigrated to crete way back when & has been making knives there for 60+ years. i hope he still is. last i heard there were only 7 other makers left.

edited: apparently the other 7 have died.

apostolis signs his knives as 'armenis' as when he arrived from turkey, they mistakingly referred to him as the armenian
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