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26th February 2015, 05:05 AM
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koummyas
I especially like #2 with the white bone grip. Is that walrus ivory or something else? When it ages it has a very spectacular appearance to my eye! And yes, the blades are something really special given the ordinary workmanship that is usually seen. Congrats on these two beautiful knives.
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26th February 2015, 03:52 PM
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Location: Black Forest, Germany
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No, I think it's either camel or goat bone. The one with the fat red grip I showed above is certainly made from henna coloured camel bone with silver application.
@ Kubur: Don't forget that the Sahara has not been always a desert, millions of years ago it was an ocean!! corrado26 |
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26th February 2015, 04:11 PM
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Really? But where are the fish now?
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1st March 2015, 08:29 AM
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All the koummyas in the attached foto come from the collection of the former and world famous tennis champion Baron Gottfried von Cramm, born 1909, who has been living in the castle Wispenstein near Alfeld. Von Cramm founded in 1951 a transport firm dealing with cotton in Egypt and became in the same year the fifth husband of at that time richest women of the world, Barbara Hutton. So he had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where he died in 1974. I think that all my Koummyas that I have shown here have been bought during that time in Egypt.
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