Cretan (?) knife with inscription for translation

TVV · 9th August 2013, 02:12 AM

Thank you very much Eftihis. Why are these inscriptions on Greek knives so elegiac? Are they references to the Ottoman yoke or simply love related?

Teodor

eftihis · 9th August 2013, 03:22 PM

Hi Teodor,
Have a look at this past thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=kydonia

kronckew · 10th August 2013, 08:18 AM

they are still making these inscribed knives in chania, crete. an elderly knife maker, Apostolis Pachtikos, made these:

not mine.

mine.

i gather he is actually a turk who immigrated to crete way back when & has been making knives there for 60+ years. i hope he still is. last i heard there were only 7 other makers left.

edited: apparently the other 7 have died.

apostolis signs his knives as 'armenis' as when he arrived from turkey, they mistakingly referred to him as the armenian

9th August 2013, 02:12 AM	#1
TVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,725	Thank you very much Eftihis. Why are these inscriptions on Greek knives so elegiac? Are they references to the Ottoman yoke or simply love related? Teodor

9th August 2013, 03:22 PM	#2
eftihis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Chania Crete Greece Posts: 512	Hi Teodor, Have a look at this past thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=kydonia

10th August 2013, 08:18 AM	#3
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,259	they are still making these inscribed knives in chania, crete. an elderly knife maker, Apostolis Pachtikos, made these: not mine. mine. i gather he is actually a turk who immigrated to crete way back when & has been making knives there for 60+ years. i hope he still is. last i heard there were only 7 other makers left. edited: apparently the other 7 have died. apostolis signs his knives as 'armenis' as when he arrived from turkey, they mistakingly referred to him as the armenian