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Antique Questions Forum / Close up pics of the knife

« on: January 09, 2011, 11:31:00 am »

Finally got the pics done so here they are.  Does this help anyone to have any more information at all?  Once again, I want to thank everyone for all their help.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 07, 2011, 05:04:27 am »

Rats.  I just checked online and of course there is no auction houses in this area at all for some reason. 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 07, 2011, 05:00:14 am »

Mariok-No, I haven't tried the auction houses yet.  I will see if there are any within a reasonable distance that sound like they might be able to tell me anything and/or give me a value.  Thank you for the suggestion.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 07, 2011, 04:30:06 am »

KC-We are planning on taking a couple of close up shots this weekend.  Which areas of the knife/dagger would be most benificial for people to see?  And bear in mind that you would have to use laymans terms since we are not knife people.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 02:35:00 pm »

Sorry Wayward, I got your name wrong.  I meant to say thank you to you especially also.  And to Sapphire.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 02:31:55 pm »

Fancy- Very interesting.  The gory details don't really bother me so don't worry.  Thanks for the info.
And thanks to Wanderer and everyone else for all the various pieces of info so far.  I am loving finding out any possibilities about this knife/dagger. 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 02:02:30 pm »

Hi Fancy-yes there is the same groove on the other side of the blade.  So that is a fuller-a blood groove?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 12:04:40 pm »

I tell you what...this is all so confusing to me.  Wayward, the peshkabz you show does also seem to be so similar to ours.  There seems to be so darned many possibilities as to what our knife might be.  We are not knife collectors by any means and that makes it even harder since we just plain do not have any knife knowledge background.  Heck, we are fishermen basically.  That is probably why we like your forum name so much (the angler thing).  But that is off the subject.  I going to check into the peshkabz thing now and see what I can find on that one.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 11:15:06 am »

Wow, the shape of the blade on that Mughal looks very very similar in general.  It seems narrower and there are other differences but this is the first blade that has the correct shape to it that I have seen.  I am going to start looking into that one.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 10:33:21 am »

Our blade doesn't look as if it has ever been sharpened, at least if so, not in a very long time.  Only the last three inches at the tip of the knife make it look like it is a double edged knife at all.  The rest is all only sharp to the top basically on one side.  Does this make it a dagger amd not a knife, or does it make it qualify as being called both, and would that qualify it as a khanjar dagger possibility?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 07:44:15 am »

Hello again,

I am trying to find out more info on the possibility of this knife being Mongolian or even prior to when they were named "Mongolian". Reason being is that I can find no sources at all that tell of human sacrifice by the Mongols.  Founds tons about their brutality during raids and etc but nothing at all about human sacrifice by them.  So I tried to look even earlier than when their name officially became "Mongols" and cannot find any info referring to them doing human sacrifice those earlier tribes either.  Anyone have any clues or know where I can find info that shows they actually did do human sacrifices to help to verify this knife might be from the Mongolian empire?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 06, 2011, 06:05:51 am »

Wayward, I am so sorry.  We have done a lot of traveling since that origional post and I had totally forgotten that my brother did that post back then.  I never even saw that one reply.  If that sounds like the correct information to you folks I will try to continue my research into it from there.  I want to find out if it has any value at all, potential for selling if it is worth it.
Thank you for the information.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 05, 2011, 06:23:42 pm »

Hmmm, that is certainly interesting looking and closer than others I have looked at. 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 05, 2011, 05:44:29 pm »

Yes, I had already seen that photo from wiki but it just didn't seem similar enough to me to be the same type.

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Antique Questions Forum / Help identify knife-PLEASE

« on: January 05, 2011, 05:06:23 pm »

We inherited this strange knife years ago from a friend.  The story he gave us was that it was a sacrificial knife and very very old.  We have no clue how he got it though and no clue if his story is true or not.  It certainly is interesting looking.   I have attached a photo but I am no computer genius so I hope the photo is the right size and stuff.  We have tried to find any information by looking online but haven't come up with anything helpful at all.  There is no place near us that we could take it to anyone who might be of some help near us either that we know of, unfortunately. 
We would really appreciate any help that anyone might be able to toss our way and would especially appreciate anyone who really knew anything really great about it!!
Thank you in advance for looking and trying.