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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 569502, member: 55"]It reminds me a lot of a souvenir knife I got in the Middle East, around 1960. Mine has horn handles, inlaid dot decoration, bone spacers; brass and base-metal fittings; metal-covered wood sheath.</p><p>It doesn't adhere to any particular ethnic tradition or blade shape, and is notable in that the blade is not sharp, and would take a great deal of work to make it an actual usable knife.</p><p>Often in that kind of situation, the distinction between commercially made and shop project is pretty small; the commercial makers of such knives are working by hand, in small shops, not factories where there would be any sort of consistency.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 569502, member: 55"]It reminds me a lot of a souvenir knife I got in the Middle East, around 1960. Mine has horn handles, inlaid dot decoration, bone spacers; brass and base-metal fittings; metal-covered wood sheath. It doesn't adhere to any particular ethnic tradition or blade shape, and is notable in that the blade is not sharp, and would take a great deal of work to make it an actual usable knife. Often in that kind of situation, the distinction between commercially made and shop project is pretty small; the commercial makers of such knives are working by hand, in small shops, not factories where there would be any sort of consistency.[/QUOTE]
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