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Originally Posted by gp
well hereby again;
it does not look like the standard or usual ones with either horse or (more modern) straight handle but the blade clearly is a puuko. total lenght 14 cm
The grip and scabbard is made of bone with reindeer inscription (Svalbard? perhaps...)
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Nice knife. Thanks for reposting these examples. From the little I know Sami does seem like a good bet. It looks backwards in the sheath. In some respects, it reminds me of knives marked Norge from Geilo Norway , but they always seem to have leather scabbards, brass ferules, and handles that bulge in the middle. The older versions do not have a ricasso like your examples. The reindeer theme is on both your examples and these commercially made knives. I do not know enough to speculate on the direction the scrimshaw type decoration traveled in culturally. Maybe this is why I have seen the Geilo knives mislabeled as Sami.
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