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Old 19th June 2017, 06:24 PM   #1
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Is this what I guess, just some tourist knives?

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Old 19th June 2017, 06:50 PM   #2
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Hi Stefan,

also when your dagger seems to be not very old I don't think that it is a "tourist" knife. This daggers are often described as Bedja dagger but beside from the Bedja this sort of dagger is found by the Hadendoa (Fuzzi Wuzzi), Beni Amer and Tigre in Ethiopia and Sudan.
See also here: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=Hadendoa A very informative thread regarding this daggers.

See also panga na visu from Manfred A. Zirngibl & Alexander Kubetz, page 244-5.

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Old 20th June 2017, 04:17 AM   #3
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Detlef is right on the money!
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Old 20th June 2017, 06:46 AM   #4
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Hi Detlef,

Thank you so very much for your help. I really appreciate that.
I got these two daggers from someone who seems to know that I love different kind of blades and with this gift I learn something new. Very happy about it.

Again, thank you!

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Old 20th June 2017, 11:08 AM   #5
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I would call "tourist" a weapon that cannot really be used as a weapon as the blade is too flimsy, but the dress and decoration is flashy and eye catching.

These daggers neither have flimsy blades, nor are they very decorated. They appear to be nothing but genuine honest ethnic weapons.
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Old 20th June 2017, 06:30 PM   #6
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Thank you so very much for your help. I really appreciate that.
Hi Stefan,

glad to have been from help!
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