CARVED IVORY DHA/ PRIESTS KNIFE HANDLES

[Nathaniel]

I do not really know anything about Burmese knives (such as the above), but when I think of Priest/ Monks knives I think of these style Thai blessed knives... http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5162

Also see at the bottom of this series of pictures the Monk's looking at these type knives: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...10&postcount=8

Here is also another great thread I pulled out of the archives is:
http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002295.html

The most valuable are those who are blessed by well know/ famous Buddhist Monks.

In this sense these type of special blessed knives are considered "amulets"

If you search on ebay, "Thai Knife" in addition to fruit carving knives, you will see priest/ lucky knives which can be as small as 1-3 inches and of course much larger full size knives.

[VANDOO]

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[Nathaniel]

Beautiful carvings....

Here is a more related link I posted recently on another thread that is related:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...9&postcount=11

[Nathaniel]

Specifically this comments by Mark:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...57&postcount=8

[Nathaniel]

Barry, My feeling is that most of these ivory handle carving are Burmese

Here is an interesting article I found online about Ivory carving in Myanmar
http://www.asianart.com/articles/ivory/index.html

[Nathaniel]

Monograph on Ivory Carving in Burma (1901) by Henry Sheldon Pratt

http://ia700306.us.archive.org/25/it...00pratrich.pdf

[Battara]

Thanks Nathaniel, very helpful.