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Todd Whiting
Location: Rochester, NY Joined: 19 Jul 2013
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Posted: Fri 19 Jul, 2013 3:05 pm Post subject: Any ideas as to the origin of this knife? |
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Picked this up today, no idea what I have here.
Thanks in advance!
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Sam Barris
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Posted: Fri 19 Jul, 2013 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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There are all kinds of push daggers our there, the Indian katar being perhaps the best known. I don't think that's a katar. Honestly, it looks like someone with horses maybe had a spare hay hook and anvil around and decided to have some fun.
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Ryan McLaurin
Location: California Joined: 12 May 2008
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Posted: Fri 19 Jul, 2013 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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It almost looks like someone forged a hay hook into a push knife, though the blade looks a little thick and wide for this to be the case.
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Ralph Grinly
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Posted: Sat 20 Jul, 2013 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah..it looks like someone's home made version of a push dagger. Somehow, I doubt it's be very effective . It doesn't have much of a point, or an edge..and with a grip like that, I doubt one would be able to deliver an effective 'punch'. That round grip would let the blade rotate too easily out of alignment if it met any resistance
An interesting find, anyway
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Glen A Cleeton
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Harry Marinakis
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Posted: Sun 21 Jul, 2013 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Obviously it's a thing-a-ma-bob that is used for a whatcha-ma-call-it.
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