Turkish knife

erlikhan · 18th November 2005, 02:05 PM

Yes.Only Moroccans have 6 pointed star, but not together with crescent. looks like a yataghan type bayonet edge to me as well. Could be a sharpened and rounded chassepot edge perhaps, or Enfield, German??
The strange hand guard..Perhaps silly but no possibility it was originally the part from a nice bronze lamp, which is always used on the lamp-ceiling joints to conceal the cables and trash??

(I dont know its technical name in English)

Freddy · 18th November 2005, 04:12 PM

Yeah, I know what you mean about the guard. Could perhaps even be part of a candlestick...perhaps older than the rest of the knife

Tim Simmons · 18th November 2005, 05:43 PM

Does anybody know if Moroccan troops fought with the French, like West Africans did in WW1? That might explain Moroccan trench art. The guard looks like it has come from a French object. Tim

Rivkin · 18th November 2005, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Does anybody know if Moroccan troops fought with the French, like West Africans did in WW1? That might explain Moroccan trench art. The guard looks like it has come from a French object. Tim

There were algerian units deployed by french in WWI, don't about moroccan ones.

18th November 2005, 02:05 PM	#1
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	Yes.Only Moroccans have 6 pointed star, but not together with crescent. looks like a yataghan type bayonet edge to me as well. Could be a sharpened and rounded chassepot edge perhaps, or Enfield, German?? The strange hand guard..Perhaps silly but no possibility it was originally the part from a nice bronze lamp, which is always used on the lamp-ceiling joints to conceal the cables and trash?? (I dont know its technical name in English)

18th November 2005, 04:12 PM	#2
Freddy Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sint-Amandsberg (near Ghent, Belgium) Posts: 830	Yeah, I know what you mean about the guard. Could perhaps even be part of a candlestick...perhaps older than the rest of the knife

18th November 2005, 05:43 PM	#3
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,875	Does anybody know if Moroccan troops fought with the French, like West Africans did in WW1? That might explain Moroccan trench art. The guard looks like it has come from a French object. Tim