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Post by ekster on Aug 3, 2018 20:52:21 GMT
Can anyone please tell me more about this knife? I've been told it's Moroccan but that's all I know about it. I would like to know its age, origin, value, history, any information is welcome.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Aug 3, 2018 23:35:22 GMT
The blade is African (West African, or North African). Could be Moroccan. Probably a 20th century tourist souvenir.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 4, 2018 2:16:30 GMT
Didn't want to comment when I first saw this, as I thought I'd seen similar knives before but couldn't remember where or anything else about them. Thus, I'd hoped to look around online. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity.
I'll defer to Timo's judgement, as usual. It doesn't look like anything I know as "Moroccan" but that doesn't really mean much.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Aug 4, 2018 2:33:56 GMT
Yes, it isn't a classic Moroccan style. But various knives from a sizable chunk of West Africa turn up there for sale to tourists.
Most of the antelope horn handle knives I see are Indian.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 4, 2018 2:43:01 GMT
Yes, it isn't a classic Moroccan style. But various knives from a sizable chunk of West Africa turn up there for sale to tourists. Most of the antelope horn handle knives I see are Indian. My first thought was India, tourist piece, but again I just didn't know so I wanted to research my hunch first. Didn't know how to search for the style other than "antler knife" which would likely turn up all sorts of things unrelated to this piece.
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Post by ekster on Aug 8, 2018 20:54:55 GMT
I got it from someone who used to be a sailor at the coast of West-Africa. He told me it's Moroccan but maybe he just bought it there and the knife came from someplace else.
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Post by randomnobody on Aug 8, 2018 21:07:07 GMT
Not unlikely at all, that. Still really hard to say where it came from or how old it is.
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