Jamdhar katari knife with scabbard, nd.
Knife of Hindu Kush.
Made of wood and covered with iron.
Double edged straight blade, riveted to ‘ears’, which are riveted to crossguard.
iron hilt with wide cross guard and wide ‘bar’ pommel, all of one piece.
With bulge in centre of grip.
Pommel is completed by an incised ornamented apex ‘bar’ which is riveted.
Thought to have been bought by Lt Col Henry Charles Warre, from a ‘kafir’ on the road, during the Chitral Expedition against ‘Omrah (or Umr?) Khan’, 30 Jan 1895.
Associated with india, North West Frontier, Chitral Expedition, 1895.