ID for this dagger ?

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Overall 36 cm long, blade length 23 cm . Crude fullers. Scabbard and top of grip have a 'silver' appearance.

[Atlantia]

Tibet/Bhutan. Lots of modern carp doing the rounds at the moment but yours looks like its got some age.
Sometimes have hairpin lamination in the blades, which is what the fullers appear to be emulating in your example.
Nice length too, a good thing :).

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Tibet/Bhutan. Lots of modern carp doing the rounds at the moment but yours looks like its got some age.
Sometimes have hairpin lamination in the blades, which is what the fullers appear to be emulating in your example.
Nice length too, a good thing :).

Thanks for that .. I bought it over 25 years ago at Weller & Duftys in Birmingham in the days when I just bought anything with an edge !

[Stan S.]

Nice dagger. Looks like something is missing from the grip... Is that red fabric I see?

[Atlantia]

Nice dagger. Looks like something is missing from the grip... Is that red fabric I see?


Sometimes these have coloured fabric incorporated into their mounts. I've seen ones with pierced sheet mounts with red fabric underneath.
The hilts are usually wire bound.

[Atlantia]

Thanks for that .. I bought it over 25 years ago at Weller & Duftys in Birmingham in the days when I just bought anything with an edge !

Back in those days good Tibettan and Chinese stuff was fairly common. Most of these that I see now are small and often not old.

It looks as though there was wire on the hilt. Is the material under the remains or over it?

If it's gone it wouldn't be difficult to replace. The silver scabbards and mounts are sometimes plated sometimes solid. If solid they polish up quite well.

Best
Gene

[Stan S.]

Sometimes these have coloured fabric incorporated into their mounts. I've seen ones with pierced sheet mounts with red fabric underneath.
The hilts are usually wire bound.

Thats what I thought. On a 2nd look there appears to be remains of the original wire binding at the bottom of the fabric piece. If this is the only thing that's missing, it would easily restorable.

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Thats what I thought. On a 2nd look there appears to be remains of the original wire binding at the bottom of the fabric piece. If this is the only thing that's missing, it would easily restorable.

Yes that is quite right , there is a piece of silver wire which was perhaps part of the binding on top of the red fabric.