Any photos Rick? Always nice to see another kukri!
Brass, steel or silver fittings?
Manolo, They dont realy help with dating, They can still do the broad fullers today.
Sometimes they forge them sometimes they grind them, often both.
This one is Dia Chirra.
It shows the kukri cost more to make, & was more likley to be an officers or senior NCOs piece. {Or Diplomat, or owner of Tea plantation etc.} or as you say a gift or perhaps presentation piece.
They were definatly carried into combat though. Thats well recorded.
I have seen pictures of inlisted men in Burma in ww2 carrying Dia chirras. {not quite such dressy versians though.}
Officers always bought there own kukri {certaly untill at least ww2.}, so often carried quite fancy ones, if that was to there taste.
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