VICTORIAN ANGLO-INDIAN BOWIE KNIFE.

An important and most unusual collectors Bowie knife. It is logical that European styled Bowie knives would have been produced in India by local craftsmen. Many items of this Anglo-Indian manufacture can be found within furnishings and other craftsmen items. The proportions of the knife as well as form remain strictly European however, the silver wire kofi work to the hilt as well as punch decoration and tooling to the leather work betray Indian manufacture. Knives such as these would have been used for hunting and military purposes and would have been carried on active service in places such as the North West Frontier.

Code: 62763