New Style Kukhri

kronckew

kronckew

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Hi y'all, thought you'd get a kick outta this one

just picked up a 'gurkha knife kukri/oriental dagger' for about the cost of a pack of cigarettes (i don't smoke anymore tho)

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you will note the minor discrepancy in the description tho. :D

good thing i also collect malay/indonesian/filipeno items innit?
 
must be my night, also just ebayed this one for about two packs:
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a damascus dagger brought back by a soldier in 1944 (his name engraved in horn handle)
 
What ! You must live right buddy . I don,t think much of the sheath on the second one but the knife is neat ! Have you paid your oigarette import duty ?L:O:L
 
i thought it looked a bit taliboney meself. i'll always think of it as my PI Kukhri. a bit crude, but probably an everyday villager model.
 
You are an ebay inspiration Kronk. Great snag.
 
Hi Kronck,
Handle and scabbard look a lot like the talibon, but the blade looks bolo. Of course in the Philippines, it's just a big knife.:) They still make them and sell them at the markets for local use. I remember a pic on the ethnographic forum of piles of them at a stall in the market. Couldn't find it though. The PI version of the villager khukuri. Good hardworking knives.

Attached is my latest Ebay find. Still waiting for it to arrive. A khukuri, a puuko, and a PI Moro spearhead all in the same auction! Like it was meant just for me. LOL

Steve

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how did i miss those? - musta had my 'europe only' filter stuck on again.

love the puukko, and the spear head! after re-hafting it will be just the thing for zombies and would make a nice boarding pike on the good ship 'The Black Duck'

the kukh looks like a real one, no lion head or funny shaped indian grip and looks like a real steel bolster!
 
the saga continues:
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looks like this is a good weekend (this one was about 4 packs worth)
.43 metres loa (looks a bit like a bent flyssa, yvsa might be interested)
 
Steve,

I think that looks great, I would really appreciate a close up of each when they come in!

ferguson said:
Hi Kronck,


Attached is my latest Ebay find. Still waiting for it to arrive. A khukuri, a puuko, and a PI Moro spearhead all in the same auction! Like it was meant just for me. LOL

Steve
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You should hire your ebay services out. You're an ebay consultant now. Write an Idiots Guide to Scoring on Ebay. Its you and Rowling hanging out in the literary upper crust and all.
 
kronckew said:
the saga continues:
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looks like this is a good weekend (this one was about 4 packs worth)
.43 metres loa (looks a bit like a bent flyssa, yvsa might be interested)
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Kronck, that looks almost exactly like mine!!!!:thumbup: :D Any idea of what it is? :confused:
 
Yvsa said:
Kronck, that looks almost exactly like mine!!!!:thumbup: :D Any idea of what it is? :confused:
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Don't have much info on it yet, will take some better pics when it arrives & post them on the vikingsword ethnographic forum...

ebay desc. was

"[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Very nice old knife from africa - old iron with ingravings and brass ,handle in bras - lenght 43 cm .[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]a simmilar knife is on pisplay at the museum of african art Tervuren Belgium"[/FONT]
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Andrew Taylor said:
That looks like a golok, some might say a load of goloks :)

By co-incidence I found this

http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/valiant_golok.html

from here

http://www.valiantco.com/antique/golok.html
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he's got a lot of nice stuff there, i've got a couple of his goloks, a keris and a kopis. golok is one of them generic terms, means 'knife', mostly they have rather blunt points. when it arrives & i can get a better feel for it, i'll post more pics. i think it's one of the simpley produced 'cracker barrel' ones you can find in remote village stores or in the open markets, cheap & made for using, not display.
 
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Thats an Algerian knife from north Africa,, comes with both straight & curved blades. In both brass & wood handels/scabbards.That one is a typical example with the carving.


I guess the curved ones would come under the general Jambyia heading but I expect there is a local name as well , in Morroco it would be called Koumiya.

Spiral
 
Moroccan koummya while curved are somewhat different in that the major edge is on the inside of the curve and the minor 'false' edge is on the outside, as is my koummya from algiers.... Linky

it's for sure north african & probably north western, and appears very close to the flyssa except for the curved slicing blade & slightly different grip shape.... except for the lack of the traditional guard/grip shape, it could be a wedding nimcha
 
True your are correct on what a komiya is , I was trying to point out {not clearly enough.} the morocan jambiya was called a koumiya.

Yours is the Algerian dagger that could be called a jambiya {curved blade Arab dagger .}which would have a diffent name that I dont know.

Each Arab country has its own version of the Jambiya & usualy its own name as well.

For your dagger See page.44 of "Islamic weapons"" Mahgrib to Moghul" by Anthony Tirri, for reference. {although his book isnt infallible, it is rather a wonderfull coffee table piece.

Artzi sells them as Algerion Nimcha, but they are not those Nimcha either.

http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=1506

But they are from Algeria. So Algerion dagger is probaby the safest name! {IMHO} But I see why you say Flysa as well, especialy re the handle.

Spiral
 
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