WHAT DID I JUST BUY?? and Happy Easter for those who celebrate it.

[ZhenjieWu]

Originally Posted by josh stout

A friend of mine found me a knife like this in Qinghai province in 1993 while pretending to be an ethnic Moslem to escape travel restrictions on westerners. I understood the knife to be made by ethnic Tibetans. In general, the layered pattern of metals and horn in the handle and pommel is quite similar to Eastern Tibetan styles such as this one:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j6...E5AEB600-1.jpg

Are the Bao An ethnic Tibetans, or are they a separate ethnic group, perhaps like the Yi with a Tibetan influence?
Thanks,
Josh

I will post some Tibetan Dao or dagger. See if they can help you. My opinion is the dao you post is a Tibetan dao, although it's not the normal style.










ZhenJie Wu

[ZhenjieWu]

When I see this picture, I am not sure about origin of Josh's knife anymore.


This is a Tibetan knife for sure.

ZhenJie Wu

[ZhenjieWu]

[IMG]tp://www.taiji.net.cn/BBS/UploadFile_Tj/2007-4/20074711554048399.jpg[/IMG]





Every one
I have to say that all pictures I posted belong to certain collectors, I just use them trying to discuss with you guys.
The origins of these pictures are http://www.chinabbz.com/bbs/read.php?tid=23338 and http://hfsword.com.

ZhenJie Wu

[Tim Simmons]

Thank you, good stuff .