Canary Islands Dagger or Spanish Philippines Naval Dirk?

[Sajen]

Hi Ian,

It's for sure not a Canary Island knife/dagger and I also strongly doubt that it's Spanish/Philippines. French?

Regards,
Detlef

[Ian]

Hi Detlef,

You are too quick for me. I was still writing the description and getting the formatting sorted out and you already responded. French might be a good idea. I'm not familiar with any French or French Colonial stacked hilts.

Regards,

Ian.

[Interested Party]

Could Chilean origin be a possibility?

[Ian]

Originally Posted by Interested Party

Could Chilean origin be a possibility?

Thanks for the suggestion IP. Yes, Chile is a possibility given the well known stacked hilts on some of the traditional Chilean corvo. As I noted above, the stacks don't look as tight as on a corvo, and corvo generally have more varied materials in their stacks. Nevertheless, Chile is much more likely than the Canary Islands! A Chilean origin would probably not account for the thumb groove on the pommel.

[Ian]

We seldom do this, but given the possibility that this is a European (or European colonial) knife, I'm going to cross-list it in the Euro Forum just in case someone there has more ideas. Unfortunately, replies in the Euro Forum will not show up here, and vice versa. So it is necessary to check both the copy in the Ethno Forum and here. This is one reason why we don't copy threads between forums very often—it's hard to keep track of what is said in the other forum.