KUKRI 1900’s

Description

19th century example
Leather covered wooden scabbard
Brass handworked scabbard. Filigree work poor with missing parts and stones
Obviously a working tool in its day knocks & chips to blade
Bone hand is cracked and dry, otherwise complete, not chip.

antique Nepalese Gurkha Kukri/Kukuri combat knivewith a metal filigree and bead decorated scabbard  The knife has a  quality hand forged single edge steel curved blade  mounted with ox bone handle and accompanied with two smaller similar handled sharpening knives.  Pommel at top of handle is a disc of bone not the usual steel, this turns easily.

Knife without scabbard is 445grams

No restoration has been attempted.