Are these the same kami?

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Are these the same kami? and who is it?? Both marks look like tridents but the script looks different, or is it only a different style of writing the same letters...
I'm planning to gift these to family and want to share accurate info.
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Only Trident I see is Shankar. That is the kami that was helping Bhakta make the little bowies.
I don't remember him being Shankar so I doubt that is right.

Yangdu will know for sure.
 
Bawanna said:
Only Trident I see is Shankar. That is the kami that was helping Bhakta make the little bowies.
I don't remember him being Shankar so I doubt that is right.

Yangdu will know for sure.
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Shankar was one name when searching "trident". Also Murali, Hari, Navin Rai, Min Bahadur (worked with Bhatka on the MMAKB's), kami's came up. The evil photobucket pooched all the reference pics so nothing to compare.

Sure hope Yangdu or someone reading Nepali replies. If I didn't read english, I wouldn't know "A" and "a" are the same letter and I'm lost on the Nepali script - they both look different, but similar, plus scribing into steel mustn't be easy either
 
I think you nailed it with Min Bahadur. He put his mark on some of them little bowies. I'm almost certain on the little bowie, the other can't say for certain. I don't know if he made any of the bigger stuff. Maybe so.
The Trident on the bigger knife looks a bit more refined, might not be the same.
 
Lacchu's mark was the trident (aka "trisul" or "trishul") back around 2011-2012, according to the post below.

Yangdu said:
Lachhu Kami made this spectacular knife. His mark, Trishul, is on the blade
of every knife he makes. He has been working for Birgorkha and perfecting
his craft for more than 10 years.

In the "good old days," he worked as Bura Master's Kami helper. The Master
Kami trained him very well and now he makes an outstanding knife for HI's
forumites...
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When Steve mentioned Lacchu, I remebered his mark was in the kami list sticky. Proceding on that lead, started looking through the sticky trying to match scripts rather than symbols.

Mainly trying to identify the babyCAK - based on scripts it's definitely NOT Lacchu. Murali matches 1st letter but not the 2nd. Sticky shows Shankar mark with "K.S." in English which doesn't help.

Soooooo, does anyone have blades with Nepali initials for: SHANKAR? HARI? NAVIN RAI?

Appreciate any pics you can share helping me compare kami marks and lettering.
 
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