Kami markings pix and some questions

Gator97

Gator97

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Hi All,

Picked up macro lens, which allows some fun with small things.

So, the idea is to creaet illustrated gallery of HI kami markings.
GUll gallery will be located on zknives.com, to be precise here in - Kukri Kami Markings Gallery. I'll try to post whtever I have there with comments and clarificationsn for which I need your help guys. And your time and info is highly appreciated.

For starters we have this:
Bura's marks on GRS Viillager, in this order left on the choil, right on the choil, right mid blade, where it curves.



Kumar had only 2 marks on his 12 inch villager AK


If somene can explain in more details what is each one and which one is the real mark and why different numbers that'd be great :)
 
Some other posts lately on these.

www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351922

& I guess Ms Yangdu answered your question in a seperate thread
www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3143383&postcount=1

diff # of marks at diff periods of factory operation.

Sometimes the marks can look a bit different
consider it a font or handwriting distinction
still the same 'character'

Factory name mark at bend = BG = BirGorkha

Newest mark is on opposite side from kami mark/initials = UB for Uncle Bill

* Star mark is recent addition indicating Him.Imp. kami (I think)

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Ok, thanks for the info guys.
Now...

Can someone confirm (or tell who it is) that this is Durba's mark:

?
And then I assume this is his variation of BirGorkha symbol:
?

Markings are from my 21" chitlangi.

Also, is this Sher's mark (from 20" Jange)

 
And one more question :)
I was sure those marks below, taken from 12 inch villager AK were Kumars.



Then, theoretically, or according to the info I have this 20" Sirupati was also made by Kumar, but markings are different...
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And who's marks are this?
Again, as I was told this 18" Kobra was made by Kumar, but apparently not...
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Gator97 said:
And one more question :)
I was sure those marks below, taken from 12 inch villager AK were Kumars.



Then, theoretically, or according to the info I have this 20" Sirupati was also made by Kumar, but markings are different...
.

And who's marks are this?
Again, as I was told this 18" Kobra was made by Kumar, but apparently not...
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Gator the two top ones *Are* made by Kumar, one set of initials is English, the other Devengari.

The bottom one is by the Amtrack or Railroad kami but I can't ever remember his name.
 
Again...agree with Yvsa.

You keep taking the pics and we will identify them. Once a complete set of pics is available, perhaps they can be added to the HI website?

It's a thought anyway!

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Berkley said:
OK, youngsters - try this one: :)
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ROTFLMFRRAO!!!! Bet the youngsters will never guess Berk.;)
May not be the prettiest but they *Are* indeed some of the best khuks ever made in any era!!!! :D
 
Gator97 said:
Cool :)
So, I can assume Durba and Sher markings are identifyed correctly?
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Gator methinks Durba's is correct, but in addition another kami used the Nepal flag as a mark as well but I don't recall who it was/is. Sorry, maybe another one of the gang will chime in.

Sher's is correct.

Actually there were several of the marks that got switched around between the kamis. I don't know if any kami kept their original mark or not. The matter got so confusing there for a while that I couldn't keep up and others were having a hard time trying to keep up.:grumpy: :(
Methinks it was all eventually sorted out.
The best thing to do I think is to keep on going like you are, posting good pix of the marks and then confirming who they belong too now. Nasty has a good idea in that maybe we can get the updated marks put on the HI Website for the benefit of all.
It would sure be a great help in my opinion, whatever that's worth.;) :D
 
Thanks Yvsa :)
Sure, I'll continue. Hopefully I'll do the rest tomorrow.
So far 1 unidentified left, Amtrack or Railroad kami, unless those 2 are the same person?


Current gallery of Kami markings is here .

For HI I can make smaller versions and combine into one larger pic, including titles. Whatever HI decides on I guess.
 
Yvsa said:
ROTFLMFRRAO!!!! Bet the youngsters will never guess Berk.;)
May not be the prettiest but they *Are* indeed some of the best khuks ever made in any era!!!! :D
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You got that right! Darned near sliced off a couple of fingertips just putting the sucker on the scanner, and it's never been sharpened since coming out of the famous triangular box sometime in the last century!! :D
 
Nasty said:
As I understand, the "Railroad" kami's real name is Raju Rasaili and has the initials of "RR", aka "Amtrak" and has always used the flyflot (the actual name of the symbol, not swastika...the arms are in opposite directions and meanings *totally* different).
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From this thread. Click.

Brian
 
Thanks! I'll add that to the gallery.

BTW. I watched documentary the other day, Occult History of the 3rd Reich...
Swastika along with other symbols used in Nazi Germany was borrowed from tibetian culture, plus bunch of runic symbols, and for that matter lots of other things as well.
Originally it was a symbol of good luck and was quite popular aruond the world. They showed US female hocky team from 20s wearing swastika on their t-shirts.
 
Gator97 said:
Thanks! I'll add that to the gallery.
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Also Gator be sure and get the spelling right on "fylflot." Fylflot is correct and not Flyflot. Anytime folks see the fylflot they are automatically going to assume and it's probably going to be a wrong assumption and if you enter flyflot into Google you don't get the proper information.;)
Would you believe that information about shoes comes up, it does.:footinmou ;) :D
 
The other kami to use the flag was Murali...

I give up on the other mark though...Berk or Edutsi...PM the info please?

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Nasty said:
The other kami to use the flag was Murali...

I give up on the other mark though...Berk or Edutsi...PM the info please?

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Wado Uwinv. I knew you knew.;) :D

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Uwinv, et al: The mark Berk posted needs to be of record as well for you youngsters so to speak.

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This is the mark of K.G.R. the only literate kami of the time and he Stamped/etched/engraved each and Every HI Khuk made during that era.
This was also the beginning of the serial number era which didn't last all that long. Later ol' K.G.R. stamped his initials IIRC as well as the serial numbers.
Like I sorta said earlier, "This was an era of maybe not so pretty khuks but of damned well made ones with good convexed edges properly made!!!!" ;) :D
 
Ok, this is the last specimen I got out of my kukris.
Kami with L.B. initials, no idea who. I have 2 kukris made by that kami, 18" ang khola and 18" WW II.

Here they are. Same kami obviously, slight variation in markings, secondone (on WW II) has sun, or a star in addition to initials and a moon.

Who's that?


And one more question.
Is this Bir Gorkha logo again or something else? it's on the blade benf of WWI.
 
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