Thank you for your response Kubur, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, the rationale behind the thought process that will rank one thing "better" than another.
So, for you, a knife is "better" if it is older.
A knife is "better" if it is intended for use by people living in the area where it was made.
This then raises another couple of questions.
In respect of the knife in post #6:-
1) what is its approximate age, and how do we know this?
2) you posit that the post #6 knife style was aimed specifically at European and British visitors to the area of production. In the case of some of the knives produced in this style, this idea of production for visitors does seem to be so, but is it true for every knife produced in this style?
If this is so, what evidence do we have that this is true?
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