just bought a knife at an auction and whilst looking up more information on it,
found 2 interesting sites on the topic:
click on "Read full article" of the first link
https://www.mandarinmansion.com/item...an-style-knife
https://nobliecustomknives.com/tradi...ngolian-knife/
and a picture of some art work: Mongolian national knife made of 1 kg of silver