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Old 7th March 2009, 12:52 AM   #2
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Neither.
This is a Qajar-era Iranian Qameh, a knock-off of a Caucasian Kindjal ( Khandjali). Qaddara is ( originally) a South-Caucasian single edge dagger that also found its way into Iran through Azerbaijan. Stone called very big Kindjals ( Qammehs) Qaddara, but in the Caucasus they are known as Satevari.
Double-edge= Kindjal, Qameh; single-edge= Qaddara.
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