Cold Steel Naval Dirk: Origin of Design?

Dmitry · 13th October 2010, 07:47 PM

The two dirks that Norman has posted are -
1.Soviet Model 1944 officer's dirk
and its predecessor.,
2.Russian Imperial Model 1803 naval officer's dirk.
The latter one was a regulation pattern, based on the period British examples, and similar to the one I posted above.
Funny enough, there was no regulation pattern British naval dirks until 1856, but other countries copied the popular British designs from the earlier times, and made them Pattern long before the Royal Navy got to pattern theirs.

13th October 2010, 07:47 PM	#1
Dmitry Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 607	The two dirks that Norman has posted are - 1.Soviet Model 1944 officer's dirk and its predecessor., 2.Russian Imperial Model 1803 naval officer's dirk. The latter one was a regulation pattern, based on the period British examples, and similar to the one I posted above. Funny enough, there was no regulation pattern British naval dirks until 1856, but other countries copied the popular British designs from the earlier times, and made them Pattern long before the Royal Navy got to pattern theirs.