Wondering what this is

[CourseEight]

Hi all --

Didn't win this, but I don't know what this is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330208096267

Thanks!

--Radleigh

[ALEX]

It looks like Khyber short sword but with added crossguard and re-shaped/sharpened tip. Afghanistan/Pakistan is likely origin.

[CourseEight]

Thanks!

[ariel]

It is a regulation military Khyber: Afghani Military, end of the 19th-beginning of 20th cen.
I like non-regulation, peasant-type Khybers more.

[CourseEight]

Thanks a lot. I like it, but I'm glad I didn't bid more than I did. On the subject of khybers, I recently thought I was purchasing a decent one, but when I received it it appears to be chrome or nickel plated. It is rather plain otherwise, an inscibed design near the base. Are there plated tourist khybers, akin to the lion-headed tourist kukri? I can post a picture, but it might not be worth photographing...

--Radleigh