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sfenoid13 3rd December 2018 07:06 AM

Info on this fancy butcher knife??
 
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I’m wondering if anyone knows anything about this butcher looking knife I believe is from the Balkans. It seems to Ben Bosnian but not sure. It has some nice fancy bone handle and a good quality heavy blade. It’s about 8 inches long. The handle is alike a Yatagan handle shape.

David 5th December 2018 06:52 PM

Why do you believe this is a "butcher's knife". :shrug:

sfenoid13 7th December 2018 06:43 AM

I actually have no idea. It just reminds me of a butcher knife. What else could be ?

Kubur 7th December 2018 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by sfenoid13
I actually have no idea. It just reminds me of a butcher knife. What else could be ?

Uyghur knife?
Uzbek pachk knife?

To me it's not a knife from the Balkans

DaveA 9th December 2018 07:37 PM

Old style p’chok possibly Uygher
 
This looks like a Pichoq (Bıçak) with the slightly up curving blade style of the Uyghers who have resided predominantly in the region known today as Uzbekistan, but extending into China as well as Afghanistan. The hilt is different from pichoq from other Turkmen regions (usually black). A clue is that Russians call this type of knife an “afghanka” on Russian language collector sites. It suggests to me that such knives may have been collected during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

sfenoid13 11th December 2018 06:45 AM

Thank you for the info. Great insight.


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