Another mid 20th Century Indian Kukri?
 

Picked up by my Uncle when in the Himalayas in the late 1970s. Handle seems to be bone? Looks fairly crude. Is this another North Indian made kukri?

Thanks, M.

Looks Nepalese to me.

Me too!
Love that bone grip and the smoothly curved spine.
Nice One. Probably a 'villager' Kami who knows what he is doing...

Thanks for the responses, chaps. I’ll get some more shots and dimension up. The “pommel” looks to be brass.

At first glance I thought the grip was horn; is it confirmed to be bone?

Handle is 110 mm, blade 290 mm.

Yes, you are right, it is horn - not bone, my error - I’ll ask my Dad if he knows what type.

Could be polished stag. They made them looking like that. I prefer is unpolished.
My Godzilla, Crown stag grip:

Those are some weird image artifacts.

:D:D Better? Satisfied? ;):D:D

I was referring to kronckew's picture (the fullers and the edges of the scabbard look distorted), but I don't object. :D

Oh, I understand! :D You're correct, it looks indeed somewhat weird. :confused:

The suede cover over the original wood scabbard (and its original thin black leather cover, was handstitched in the pattern you see. Where the stitches cross over, they have a bumpy appearance. It's the low resolution auction photo enlarged a bit, so that adds to the illusion. The blade spine is also smooth, tho the grainy photo shadows make it a bit indeterminate like it might be notched - it isn't, your eyes fool you.


The original scabbard inside stops flush with where the stitches end, so there is kinda-like a rain flap the grip inserts into. The curve of the crown stag & the way it's installed fit the hand perfectly and give you a firm and precise edge alignment. I call it 'Godzilla', it's a 15in.AngKhola bladed beast you do not want to make angry. It's a heavy beast, so I imagine it didn't do well on a belt, and needed the baldric - which is a nylon luggage shoulder strap I added.

Here are a couple better pics I just took of it tonight:

Indeed, much better! :cool: