19th century Cretan knife in Ottoman form
a small sized / little knife like a bichaq from Crete made either during the Ottoman era or based upon the knives from that period; 19th century.
Strange and sacrilage to me is that someone thought it necessary to engrave the blade. Mine with text and a date 1961
Not a single incident as you can see from one picture also found on another one I tracked on the internet (to see if mine was a forgery or something else) with a date 1951.
Dimensions:
total lenght: 19,8 cm
blade: 9 cm
handle: 19 cm
scabbard (wood covered with leather): 10,7 cm
handle with 3 rivets, 4 circular with dots decoration
Last edited by gp; 21st May 2020 at 09:38 PM.
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