I have dug this one up again as I now suspect this is another German East African hybrid made by African soldiers in the Great War. The spear point blade with a central midrib is not a European thing but the handle is so obviously made to imitate a European military knife even though the blade is originally a European knife . The thick buffalo? leather does not seem tanned in a African tribal way either but the stitched pattern on the scabbard strikes me as having a native touch. It is the midrib that does it for me. Tim
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