Not Bhojpores, as I also have one and these are clearly built with more care in the details and construction. These are called "Victorian Era Officer Kukri" which I really take with a grain of salt.
I reached out to Dr. Judkins and he spent a few days looking thru my pictures and his records.
Here is his reply:
"No that's fine. You have me stumped.
We may need to wait until some of these begin to show up with various sorts of markings or stamps to get a better idea of when they were produced. Of course that's always the challenge with Nepalese made kukri as these were produced in small batches, and they tended to reuse old designs. The question gets further complicated because some of this material say, late 19th century stuff, might actually have stayed in service until after world war II.
still, looking at your knives, they were clearly made and used by the Royal Nepalese military. The style of the handles, the marks on the bottom, the quality of the blades, all points to these being military issue knives made in Nepal and not India or anywhere else.
my guess is that all of these were probably made a little bit after most of the longleaf blades that Atlantic cutlery is selling. Who knows, if we wanted to indulge in wild speculation we might say world war one-ish? And it looks like more effort went into the construction of these blades than we see on some of the other military examples. Again, who knows what that really means, without concrete evidence of so e sort it's hard to say. I really do like the more pronounced curves on these blades, their geometry is quite nice. But I am going to have to guess that these are early 20th century pieces, may be produced after the main run of longleaf Gurkha kukri was over.
I didn't see any of these particular knives, at least to the best of my recollection, back when I toured the Atlanta cutlery Warehouse a few years ago. then again, there was just so much material to move through that it would be pretty easy for a run of a few dozen, or even a hundred kukris, to have slipped by the wayside. But I do wonder if these are all from the same cache, or if there might have been another set of purchases. Again that's just more wild, and unsubstantiated, speculation. It's really too bad that they didn't nap and catalog that castle, noting where things were stored, before clearing it out. my guess is that that measure simple as that may sound, would have solved a lot of these questions. stuff on the bottom of the pile always tends to be a little older than stuff on the top!"
