North African dagger for identification

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by kronckew

I suspect the Moroccans are lazy and only sharpen as little as possible rather than the more normal fully sharpened both edges. It's certainly not because they get there fingers down there. I dislike Khoumiyya in general.

Moroccans are not lazy, Africans are not lazy, Arabs are not lazy.
English are not lazy (despite they have Polish workers).

Be careful i was banned from this forum for less
just because I posted one item that i had on the swap forum...

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by Kubur

English are not lazy (despite they have Polish workers).

But I can confirm that also Polands not lazy! The Germans like Poland workers.

[ariel]

On top of that, Poland has an insane number of gorgeous women. Polish men are not lazy: they understandably try to stay home as much as possible. Can’t blame them)))

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by ariel

On top of that, Poland has an insane number of gorgeous women.

Oh yeaaahhh...Especially in Bialystock and krakow...

Originally Posted by kronckew

i Was just Joking.

I was joking too.
More seriously for the koummiya I think your harsh stament is based on the fact that you saw only ugly koummiya from the 1900ties or later.
If you had in hand a nice koummiya from the mid 19th c you will change your mind.
By the way i never saw a koummiya before 1800...
The blades come like that it's not that they are sharpened or not. Ariel comparison with some Persian khanjar is very true.

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Oh yeaaahhh...Especially in Bialystock and krakow...





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More seriously for the koummiya I think your harsh stament is based on the fact that you saw only ugly koummiya from the 1900ties or later.
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I've always been partial to Blonde ladies...my fatal attraction.

The only koumiyyah I've owned had a decent thick blade but the grip was atrocious as was the overall balance - It was nail ndotted 1936 Algeria. Took an instant dislike to it.

[Sajen]

Came across another example, I really like them!

[kronckew]

Look like Libyan Bou Saadi Khodmi knives. They are cool, still made and used. Love mine.

[Sajen]

Originally Posted by kronckew

Look like Libyan Bou Saadi Khodmi knives. They are cool, still made and used. Love mine.

Hello Wayne,

They are bigger and longer as a Bou Saadi and when I am not mistaken coming from Morocco.

Regards,
Detlef

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Moroccans are not lazy, Africans are not lazy, Arabs are not lazy.
English are not lazy (despite they have Polish workers).

Be careful i was banned from this forum for less
just because I posted one item that i had on the swap forum...

i Was just Joking. Time is money to a maker, if they do not need to perform an operation they won't, unless they can justify the expense. And I worked with a large number of Arabs, lived in nSaudi for 10+ years, `some were lazy, some were not. just like the rest of us. Had an assistant in Dhahran that was half Saudi, Half Moroccan, UK Cambridge Grad, smarter than most, and an all around great person and friend. His Mom was the moroccan one, very western, divorced from her Saudi husband and ruled the family. really sharp woman.

p.s.- Half my family came from areas that are now Poland, were Prussia and Austria Galetia back then. We were the German speaking part. The Polish plumbers and construction workers in the UK usually make the indigenous ones look less than industrious, especially the Union ones.