small knife/dagger from India

[Stan S.]

You are lucky. Upon my two visits to Mumbai (one lasting a whole month), I literally spent days looking to find genuine antiques and failed miserably. The excuse most shop-keepers gave me is that any sword or dagger made in the "old style" is in fact an antique. They woudl bat their eyes and look at me as if I was crazy when I tried to explain that these were modern repros