View Full Version : Old knife ID (no longer in possesion)
Helleri
19th January 2016, 04:15 PM
Had posted this one up on another forums a couple of years ago with no response. Since then it has been lost and...possibly included into a piece of bricolage artwork (kinda hard to tell what happened to it). Any way I was looking at the older pages on my photobucket and found it there so I decided to see if anyone here might know what it was. If I recall correctly both side of the blade were identical (not perfect but the same design on both sides), and there was no maker or hallmarking on it.
Rick
19th January 2016, 05:08 PM
A Turkish Surmene perhaps?
ariel
19th January 2016, 05:31 PM
The one and only:-)
Trabzon area, end of 19th century most likely.
Muslim Georgians call it " Babas Kama": Grandfather's dagger.
There are examples of them in the new Kirill Rivkin's book ( see topic).
Helleri
19th January 2016, 05:49 PM
wow you guys are so quick on this stuff...so what's up with the design? does it have any significance or is it just fancy fuller work?
Helleri
1st April 2016, 02:59 AM
been a while since I posted this but looking through reference materials (for nothing in specific) I saw something fairly similar to this (at least in the blade and scabbard)....Could this be a flyssa blade with a replacement handle?
ariel
1st April 2016, 03:05 AM
No.
Surmene.
The one and only:-)
Helleri
1st April 2016, 03:30 AM
ah ok, just making sure it can't match for anything else. such an odd handle. Really wish I could find this thing again.
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