Day 3 of Three-day Sale
Lot 1187:
An antique, commemorative, bronze GURKHA KUKRI with a hand carved lapis lazuli hilt on a custom made
wooden base with a brass plate and the inscription KHYBER 1919.
During The THIRD AFGHAN WAR (1919), at Khyber Pass, two battalions from the 11th Gurkhas Riffles Regiment,
with fixed bayonets, charged into the Afghan positions and drove them back.
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