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Gentlemen,
Thank you very much for the quick responses. Here is hopefully a better photo of the poem. Teodor |
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Thanks for the photo. Translation remains the same!
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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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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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