Chania farmer’s knife, handmade, horn handle

Name: Chania farmer’s knife, handmade, horn handle
Brand: PINAX
SKU: PX-KNI-CHA
Price: 95.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Κρητικό μαχαίρι Χανίων

A handmade Cretan farmer’s knife with a horn handle from the knife-makers’ street of Chania. EU only, adult signature, never to the UK.

Price when it opens €95.00

Being verified

Not for sale yet. The record below is public, but the supplier is not signed and documented. If we cannot prove it, we do not sell it.

Includes 24% Greek VAT.

Ships to Greece: €3.90, 1 to 3 working days. Shipping and duties

Origin record πίναξ

Where: Sifaka Street (Machairadika), Splantzia, Chania, Crete, GR-M
How: Handmade in a Chania workshop, forked handle, V-shaped point
Protected: No protected status. Origin based on supplier audit.
Maker: [partner to be sourced]
Fake test: Fakes are stamped mass-made blades with printed engravings, plastic handles and no workshop of origin. Source: whychania.com (opens in a new tab)

Full record

Material: Steel blade, horn handle
Coordinates: Not recorded
VAT class: 24% standard rate
Ships to: Ships to Greece. Open zones: Greece, European Union.Bladed article: Greece and EU only, adult signature, parcel marked. Never to the UK (Offensive Weapons Act 2019).
Compliance: Age verification at purchase and adult signature on delivery. Parcel marked as a bladed article.
Sources: whychania.com/mahairadika-street (opens in a new tab)
chania-heritage.gr/../knife-maker (opens in a new tab)
thegreekvibe.com/the-enduring-legacy-of-the.. (opens in a new tab)
nbcc.police.uk/../offensive-weapons-act (opens in a new tab)
Status: Being verified The record is public. The sale opens once a documented supplier is signed.
SKU: PX-KNI-CHA

A knife with a plain steel blade and a dark forked horn handle on a worn leather apron, a grey sharpening stone beside it and a red tin of tools behind

Illustration of the object and its place, not a photograph of a named maker.

The address

Crete Κρήτη

The southernmost region, which produces about a third of Greek olive oil. PINAX lists four Cretan objects, two foods and two crafts, and two boxes built from them.

About this object

What it is

A handmade Cretan farmer’s knife with a horn handle. The Cretan form has a forked handle end and a V-shaped point, and the blade often carries an engraved μαντινάδα (mantinada, a Cretan rhyming couplet).

Where and how it is made

Sifaka Street in Splantzia, the old town of Chania, Crete (GR-M), still called Machairadika, ‘the knife shops’. The knife-makers’ street is still at work, and the Chania heritage portal lists the trade. Each knife is made by hand in a workshop there and fitted with a horn handle.

How to use it

A general work knife for the garden, the table and the field. Dry it after use, oil the blade now and then, and keep horn away from long soaking in water.

What we have not verified yet

No workshop is signed. Maker: [partner to be sourced]. A secondary source puts a basic handmade farmer’s knife from about €85.00; our price follows that, not a quote. Shipping is strict. We never sell this knife to the UK, where the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 restricts remote sales of bladed articles. It ships within the EU only, with adult signature, in a parcel marked as a bladed article. Not to other countries at launch; each would need its knife rules checked first.