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Ian
16th August 2014, 10:13 PM
This one just finished on eBay. I'm having trouble placing its origin. Thoughts?

Ian.

russel
16th August 2014, 11:40 PM
Congratulations, I was was hoping nobody would notice this. If I am correct, it is a 19thC Indian Jamdhar Katari.

Russel

Ian
17th August 2014, 12:04 AM
Thanks Russell. Yes, I think you are correct.

Battara
17th August 2014, 04:57 AM
Russell is on the money - an Indian katari.

mahratt
17th August 2014, 02:35 PM
This one just finished on eBay. I'm having trouble placing its origin. Thoughts?

Ian.


I apologize for my bad English.
This Afghan knife worn tribes living in the Hindu Kush.

LJ
17th August 2014, 05:40 PM
I tried to identify the origin of a similar one [image attached] last year. The British Museum Handbook to Ethnographic collections illustrates an example (plate 42 s) and says it "is the national dagger of the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush" - so I put the locality down as Kafiristan. Does anybody know more about them ?