Gurkha gear

[browningautorifle]

Looks like the ones claimed to be "British issue"...broad arrow...

[Aragorn243]

I looked at that on my phone while driving which I shouldn't have been doing. It is an early one, not one of the specially contracted British issue, they were made WWII time frame. I still believe it to be legit, Nepalese made, not British made. I posted mine on here earlier, it is also Nepalese made, probably from th late 1800's.
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[Flying10uk]

I've got this one as well that the vendor said was WW2 but I didn't think so when I purchased it and I still don't.

[Boonie Stomper]

Flying10uk,

That is an incredible khukri (12-14). Wish that it could tell it's story.

[Aragorn243]

That one is probably legit also but like you said, no way to date it. It's not British but Nepalese. With the metal tip it probably is much later than the other ones.

[browningautorifle]

the vendor said was WW2

See, that's way closer to the one I've had since '76.

[Flying10uk]

I wonder if that's a date combined with an initial of the person who made it, Jim, rather than a rack number? If true, the one that I have pictured in post 14 would be 1964 and yours 1965.

[browningautorifle]

Maybe...no one's ever been able to explain it. Another was found close by later and it was marked two numbers off this one. I couldn't convince the young troop to part with it but today he swears I ordered him to give it to me. That means he has no idea where it went. That's sad...because he's a drunk now...so it's gone.

[Flying10uk]

That means he has no idea where it went. That's sad...because he's a drunk now...so it's gone.

Lets hope that it's in the safe hands of a collector, somewhere.

[browningautorifle]

It would have been nice to have E65 and E67 together though...sad.