Interesting North African Dagger
 

Just picked this up on Ebay :D


Lew

Congrats Lew!
I wanted that one!! :D Just got home and missed it though. A very nice khodme / Bou-Saada knife. The wire wrap is very well done. I wonder if the 1941 is indeed from that period.

Emanuel

Nice one, Lew. This knife comes from Algeria.

Here's mine. It's quite sharp and has a thick back. The wooden handle is also decorated with wire wrap. In addition to that, some twisted copper thread has been applied to the handle. It runs lengthwise to the top of the handle.

There's also an inscription on the base of the blade. Don't know what it means, though.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ou-sadi1-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ou-sadi2-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ou-sadi3-1.jpg

I just remembered. We already showed some of these on the forum :

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=bou-sa%E2di

Very nice Lew.
Steve

Nice one Lew, but I think you had a better one!! :D

I will post it later.

Fascinating! Thanks.

here is another pair of threads on these with more info (& a photo of mine in the linky2 there ;) )

Linky

Linky2

on close examination the right side of the bolster on mine has what i thought were two parallel nicks or file marks, i suspect after seeing above that they also are the remains left exposed to show it was made from a file.

Hi All

The knife arrived yesterday and is a real nice example. :D I noticed that the tip of the blade has a small cut out at the tip but I don't know why? It looks purposely done may to help it penetrate more easily?



Lew

mine (linky2 in my post above) had a similar rebated tip tho of a different form
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s.../tipsketch.jpg
sketch

kronckew

I really think these tips are some kind of armor piercing point (soft armor ;) ).

This is probably the best khodmi I have seen, and is no doubt a status piece. It has the most intricate and decorated scabbard I have even seen on one.

The legend of the notched blade tips again resurfaces!! :) Everybody turn your hymnals (Wagner "Cut and Thrust Weapons", the Austrian section, there are 18th century swords with notched tips).

Hi Charles

Boy oh boy that knife looks so familar to me! :) ;)



Lew