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Originally Posted by Oliver Pinchot
This is a subgroup of a family called 'Surmene' daggers.
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here 3 vintage Surmene daggers (15- 24 -33 cm)
and a new one ( black coloured) as they are still being made today known in Turkish as surmene bicagi
as for not sharp: from a damage perspective a non sharp knife or dagger is more lethal as it makes a hole.
A sharp knife or dagger cuts and its wound can be eassier dressed , mended , sewn..
FYI:
Surmene is in the middle of Rize and Trabzon city,northern Turkey at the Black Sea. The history of North region goes back to mythological times. So Surmene and the North region has really rich culture. Even the book of Anabasis includes Trapezos the name of Trabzon. The first Greek colony was settled here according to book. For a while this region was like a bridge between North and West.