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15th February 2023, 04:44 PM | #1 |
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the thing is that this hawkbill knife may not have had a special function at all.
Most probably its quality of execution far out-performs function. I don't think this had any ceremonial purpose and although grand, this was a simple utilitarian knife and , as suggested from its hawkbill shape, supposedly used in agricultural ( it is obviously meant to pry and or pull while cutting) context. |
15th February 2023, 06:19 PM | #2 | |
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A garden variety Misericorde dagger was just kind of narrow stabbing blade with a minimalistic handle. But a rich man could have ordered a " work of art". |
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