help with identity & origin

[Dom]

Originally Posted by eftihis

I am posting photos of a Greek knife i have, which has etched the exact same symbols on blade. It is dated 1906, and have the name in Greek of the owner or manufacturer (Papadimitriou) ..snip..

step by step here we are as I suggest it, the decor is not in accordance with origine; Muslim countries
I extract the 2 principal part of decor
- 1 style flower with 6 petals
- 1 webbed or Byzantine cross
it last decoration, I repeat myself
is not easy for a good Moslem to associate a croos decor on a blade carried by him, but by a Greek no problem
the Greek Moslems are rarer than one Turkish Christian
in Sofia mosque (St Sophia) in the marble was engraved exactly the same type of crosses,
all must of them have been erased when the church became a mosque


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Dom

[Tim Simmons]

I do not know anything about this except the eared handle grips have been cast and although the picture is not that clear, most probably from wax originals. Tim