New here, plus Nazi blade ID?

[Afrankiewicz12]

I’m not a knife expert by any means, I mean sure I have had a few Swiss army knives but nothing like you guys. So today while cleaning out my late grandfathers house I came across this knife, he served in navy in WW II in the Mediterranean and visited North Africa a handful of times. The story behind this is that it was a Nazi knife taken from Tunisia or something like that, it looks cool but I have no idea what it is or where it’s from. I have no intention of selling it but I was also wondering how much something like this is worth.

Pictures:
http://imgur.com/a/bfjab#0

 

[gadunz]

Arab jambiya, not Nazi.

 

[Karda]

Please see this: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...MBERS-Please-read-this-WHAT-IS-MY-KNIFE-WORTH

 

[G. Scott H.]

Yep, definitely a jambiya, common in the Muslim areas of north Africa: Morocco, Tunisia, etc. It's possible that it could have been brought back by a German soldier serving in the Afrika Korps or something. I don't know enough to tell you.

 

[marcinek]

Arab jambiya, not Nazi.

Ding. Nothing "Nazi" about it at all. 1) They didn't "invent" the swastika. 2) Those markings merely bear a passing resemblance to swastikas anyway.

Souvenir piece, most likely...sorry.

 

[Rhinoknives1]

Purely a Arab knife.
As mentioned. The swastika is 2-3 thousand years old and has been seen in Jewish, Hindu, buddhist and even norh american native cultures called a rolling Log. All long before the nazis corrupted it.

 

[Bob W]

Quite likely your grandfather bought the knife as a souvenir while serving overseas. Probably not a valuable knife, and definitely not German, but a nice keepsake regardless.