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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
As for the term for these interesting daggers, I am not a linguist of course  but I discovered the following:
"...every Bhutanese male regularly carries a knife, called a 'dossum', which he uses constantly in his daily chores".
- Bert Kerr Todd, in "Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon"
"National Geographic Magazine", December, 1952
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What a lovely name! Dossum! I realy like that!
As others say Nepal is full of Tibetan, Nepalese, Butanese,Indian & Chinese artifacts & weapons, deciding what was made by who & where can be rather difficult to work out.
The chinese even make fake Nepali tourist kukri with fake coins on nowadays! & probably millions of Tibetans live in Nepal & many still make such things.
The Victorean ones stand out, but anything else I realy havent a clue.
I concur with the mainstream opinion though, it looks recent to me.
Spiral