Help identifying knife/bayonet, please!

Hi,

New member here who would really like some help. We are clearing out my parents home and found this. We believe it may have come from India/Afghanistan at some point.

Thanks!!

Phil

 

U no what....that's very nice !!!
Does not look to me like a tourist ...anything.....but instead a real weapon.....
I'm not familiar with the design......yet !

 

can you post more photo's ? .................pleeeeeese !!!

 

Horn & bone handle....full tang....steel blade.....brass ? sheath......
Whatever it is....it's got it ...goin on !!!!

I think this would be called a dagger.....but you give no size ???

 

Guys,

Thanks very much. Here are 3 more photos.

Overall length is 10", blade 1" at widest part, 5" long blade with a 5 3/4" sheath.

Thanks again,

Phil

 

Geese Louise ....that took a while !!!!!!!!!!!!!

North African Taureg...but I have no other information...

I have not seen this before........

 

Komokwa - thanks very much.

Do we have any idea of age, were they used for close combat or were they decorative, any value, if there is a collectors market, etc? it does not have any sentimental value for us, but would like to know more about it.

 

The decoration of the sheath suggests at ceremonial....but at the same time the construction hints at personal defense....
What size is it ...please!!!

Yes there's a market
& yes...there's value there....as far as I can tell....

the other side of the sheath may give a clue as to how it was worn...

 

More research has brought me to a WEST African dagger......






Very Good Dagger from West Africa, Bissagos Islands (??) - 13139



This very good dagger is coming from west Africa. Mid 20 C. and of good quality. Curved blade 7 ½ inches long of flat diamond cross section with 1 inch ricasso. Black horn and bone handle and brass / copper scabbard. Total length 12 ½ inches. Very good condition. Sharpening and grinding signs on the blade. A similar dagger in the British Museum is described as coming from the Bissagos ( Bijagos) Islands, a group of islands off the coast of Guinea – Bissau, but the attribution to these islands is questionable.

( thank you Oriental Arms...)

 

Very Good Dagger from West Africa, Bissagos Islands (??) - 13055



This very good dagger is used by the coming from west Africa. Mid 20 C. but of good quality. Blade 5 ½ inches, flat diamond cross section with 1 inch ricasso. Black wood and bone handle and brass / copper scabbard. Total length 11 inches. Very good condition. A similar dagger in the British Museum is described as coming from the Bissagos ( Bijagos) Islands, a group of islands off the coast of Guinea – Bissau, but the attribution to these islands is questionable.

I don't know if these were produced for tourist sales....
like I said....I'm unfamiliar with this puppy !!!

 

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-...er-from-the-bissagos-islands-389-c-b744e8aaed

 

Komokwa

Thanks! The examples you have found look exactly the same. Dimensions are listed above but here they are again:

Overall length is 10", blade 1" at widest part, 5" long blade with a 5 3/4" sheath.

I'll be interested to see what the one sells for in the auction on May 18th.

Phil

 

I'm familiar with it now.......!

Yes, Phil , the size is there.....I just didn't realize I'd seen it in my quest to find you the proper information !!

If the mid 20th cent date sticks....It's no antique.....but it's a good vintage & these seem to be very well made.

Funny that the auction is only days away......
sometimes you get lucky like that.!


Thanks....let's see if the right eyes are on that auction !!