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Originally Posted by Atlantia
Hi all
Anyway, commects on mine please, and information on specific identifications.
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Hi ... alone
- I like it, very nice dagger
- without doubt .. Kurdish
- in reference to:
"weapons of the Islamic world" - "Swords & Armour", exactly same dagger, excepted: one coin (?) less
[quote on] "Baghdadi" dagger - The blade is in watered steel, the hilt in buffalo horn, and the scabbard in shagreen leather. This type of dagger is still used in Al-Jazira, or North-West Mesopotamia, Syria, and Iraq [quote off]
- in reference to:
"Les Armes Orientales" (Iaroslav Lebedynsky), exactly same dagger, excepted: scabbard tip (bouterolle) in metal, [quote on] travail du Kurdistan occidental (Turquie actuelle). XIXè siècle - Longueur 37cm [quote off]
Production Western Kurdistan (Turkey). 19th century - Length 37cm
- in reference to:
"Islamic Weapons" (C. Tirri)], exactly same dagger (x2), excepted: one without coin, other only one coin [quote on] Kurdistan daggers of present day Northern Iraq 19th/early 20th century [quote off]
here ... mine
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=Kurdish
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Dom