Ethnographic Arms & Armour - Navaja like knife

21st August 2019, 03:38 PM	#1
thinreadline Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Wirral Posts: 1,149	Navaja like knife I wonder if anyone recognises this folding knife which I would like to identify . Blade length around 6 inches. I am not sure whether I am in the correct section to show this knife ... as it is possibly ethnographic rather than European. Attached Images

21st August 2019, 03:56 PM	#2
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CSA Consulate, Rm. 101, Glos. UK: p.s. - Real Dogs Have Feathering. Posts: 3,486	I've seen a lot of similar folding bowie knives. The tail piece that guards the blade tip swings up to lock the blade in place. Definitely British/Indian or American designs ... here's a couple Joseph Rogers, sheffield no. 6 ones I found with a quick google. and an Indian copy (with the brass tail/blade guard piece) looks more like yours...I like the solid crossguard as opposed to the swinging UK one. Attached Images Last edited by kronckew : 21st August 2019 at 04:19 PM.

21st August 2019, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kronckew

I've seen a lot of similar folding bowie knives. The tail piece that guards the blade tip swings up to lock the blade in place. Definitely British/Indian or American designs ...

here's a couple Joseph Rogers, sheffield no. 6 ones I found with a quick google. and an Indian copy (with the brass tail/blade guard piece) looks more like yours...I like the solid crossguard as opposed to the swinging UK one.

thanks for that , yes you seem to have nailed it ... an Indian copy of the Rogers folder . Can you tell tell me the source of your images and the approx age of the Indian copy ?

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21st August 2019, 07:00 PM	#4
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CSA Consulate, Rm. 101, Glos. UK: p.s. - Real Dogs Have Feathering. Posts: 3,486	You're welcome. Almost bought one a good while back, but it didn't lock up tightly, bit wobbly. I think more from age & misuse tho. cool tho. Nice & unusual.

21st August 2019, 09:19 PM