African Shona Dagger For Comment

[Lew]

Hi Guys

This arrived today a nice Shona dagger with a 10" blade. The scabbard is that nice two tone wood you often see on knobkerries and it is bound with copper braided rings. Let me know what you think? I cleaned up the blade and it seems two tone also one side light the other is darkened.

Lew

[Tim Simmons]

Great knife with what looks like no unravelling of the copper weaving. Tim

[Lew]

Great knife with what looks like no unravelling of the copper weaving. Tim

Tim

All the braids are nice and tight. How old would you think the dagger is?

Lew

[Tim Simmons]

It is a very pretty example and the black and white blades of these knives are most attractive. From what I can see I should think it is no earlier than the 1930s. Tim

[Flavio]

Great dagger Lew. I also think, like Tim, that the age could be around 1930.

[Lew]

Great dagger Lew. I also think, like Tim, that the age could be around 1930.

Hi Flavio

I agree 1930s maybe mid 1920s the earliest. The patina on the wood matches a large knobkerrie that was dated 1920s it is of the same type of wood as the dagger.


Lew

[Flavio]

Hello Lew, if i'm not wrong this kind of wood is called ironwood.

[Lew]

Hello Lew, if i'm not wrong this kind of wood is called ironwood.
Flavio

It's either ironwood or African blackwood either way it's very dense and hard and takes a nice finish.


Lew

[Ferguson]

Very nice Lew!

Steve