Info on this fancy butcher knife??

sfenoid13 · 7th December 2018, 07:43 AM

I actually have no idea. It just reminds me of a butcher knife. What else could be ?

Kubur · 7th December 2018, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by sfenoid13

I actually have no idea. It just reminds me of a butcher knife. What else could be ?

Uyghur knife?
Uzbek pachk knife?

To me it's not a knife from the Balkans

DaveA · 9th December 2018, 08:37 PM

This looks like a Pichoq (Bıçak) with the slightly up curving blade style of the Uyghers who have resided predominantly in the region known today as Uzbekistan, but extending into China as well as Afghanistan. The hilt is different from pichoq from other Turkmen regions (usually black). A clue is that Russians call this type of knife an “afghanka” on Russian language collector sites. It suggests to me that such knives may have been collected during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

sfenoid13 · 11th December 2018, 07:45 AM

Thank you for the info. Great insight.

9th December 2018, 08:37 PM	#3
DaveA Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 432	Old style p’chok possibly Uygher This looks like a Pichoq (Bıçak) with the slightly up curving blade style of the Uyghers who have resided predominantly in the region known today as Uzbekistan, but extending into China as well as Afghanistan. The hilt is different from pichoq from other Turkmen regions (usually black). A clue is that Russians call this type of knife an “afghanka” on Russian language collector sites. It suggests to me that such knives may have been collected during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

7th December 2018, 07:43 AM	#1
sfenoid13 Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 134	I actually have no idea. It just reminds me of a butcher knife. What else could be ?

11th December 2018, 07:45 AM	#4
sfenoid13 Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 134	Thank you for the info. Great insight.