any ideas on this Khukuri

[BFH44]

I picked this old Khukuri up off eBay looks pretty worn out any ideas about when or where it was made?

The makers marks are N . S and above that what looks like two crescent moons with a dot between or a strange letter C . crescent moon


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=200600240572&si=YjTydr%252F2S1Ge26ov5x9fC2stylU%253D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT

 

[Steve Tall]

My uneducated opinion is that it's a good find at that price, and if the seller had put "kukri" in the description, there would have been more bidders than you and a higher final price.

Here are a couple of the photos:

 

[BFH44]

thanks Steve - i couldn't figure out how to get the photos to work

 

[Steve Tall]

thanks Steve - i couldn't figure out how to get the photos to work

I don't know about other browsers, but with the browser I use (Google Chrome), I look at the enlarged photo and then right click on the photo page to "View Page Source" and then find the photo URL link in the coding.

 

[BFH44]

thanks Steve

 

[Berkley]

I picked this old Khukuri up off eBay looks pretty worn out any ideas about when or where it was made?

If you had served in World War One (as that nice old military kukri likely did) you would look pretty worn out too.

If you turn it upside down, as the kami would have when he punched in the Buddhist stupa style "cho", the half moons become D.D - quite likely Dehra Dun.

I'd say you got a good deal on that worn out old kukri.

 

[snow and steel]

I'll own up to it. I'm jelous.

 

[Steve Tall]

...D.D - quite likely Dehra Dun...

Thanks for the link to the Dehradun info at wikipedia. I learned some things, such as:

"Dehradun was an independent kingdom, then after it was a part of Nepal. Nepal lost Dehradun to England when India was colonized..."

 

[BFH44]

wow thanks for the great insight :thumbup: I have read some but i had no idea about that part of India's history

Thanks again Berkley