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Hello,
I wanted to show you the dagger I just received, looks like a yemeni khanjar, total length 35cm I liked the leather scabbard. It was sold at a really low price so I bought it because it seemed not too recent and well made. I knew the hilt was not made of horn but it is not wood and not just plastic-resin Maybe made of bakelite or mixed stuff ? ( I read about that on the forum ) Do you think it's an old ''copy-imitation'' of a rhino hilted khanjar, or can it be really recent I tried to heat a little, it smells not like horn/hair not plastic but a little like soap-incense. Any comment ? Thank you -Kind regards |
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Sorry,
pictures are not in the right order... some more |
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Good genuine Yemeni Jambiya IMHO. Not a recent made tourist piece.
Stu |
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The hilt could be "Amberoid" .... https://www.britannica.com/science/amberoid-resin
I think you got a nice one. |
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Hi
It's a nice jambiya from Aden. It depends what you call old, if old is 1950ties, it's old. I think it is hornoid or bakelite. ![]() |
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"I tried to heat a little, it smells not like horn/hair not plastic
but a little like soap-incense." Which is why I am thinking something resinous, like Amberoid. |
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Hello,
Thank you all for your comments ! 50's just begins to be old for humans, for a jambiya not sure ![]() hopefully it's not too recent. Interesting the ''amberoid'' I didn't know it I wonder why they used to do this kind of hilt materials instead wood or marble-stone handle and why they mixed it with real silver filgree-mounts. - Was it to sell it high priced as a rare rhino hilted piece to the few ( I think !?! ) present strangers ( for British ? with the Aden Protectorate... ) - Or for local people who liked the similarity with horn hilt but hadn't enough money to buy one ? ( like skaļ-imitation leather instead of real one ) |
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