4 new daggers for comment
 

Hi Guys

Thus auction just ended I know one is a dha and the other maybe Hausa but what is that tusk hilted thing and what type of jambiya is it?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6537683286


Lew

Congratulations Lew, I was watching this one as well but did not even get a bid in as I went for something else earlier today. I think the jambiya is of a type typical for Southern Iraq. As for the tusk hilted thing, I would also love to learn what it is, but it looks SE Asian to me, as its scabbard is similar to the scabbard of the dha dagger, which by the way is really nice.
Regards,
Teodor

Wow! Great lot of knives, Lew. Congrats.

The small dha is really sweet. Mark has a few like this, and I believe he had Philip Tom polish one (two?). These come in a wide range of quality.

I'm with Teodor on the tusk-hilted knife. The scabbard and ferrule treatment really do look like a dha. The blade profile is a bit unusual for a dha, but not terribly. When you get it, if you could post some close-ups of the scabbard base and silver treatment, identification might be easier.

The tusk makes this something I now covet. :D

Hi Lew:

The tusk-hilted knife looks like a rehilted small dha. The tusk is from a boar. I've not seen a similar example before, and I suspect it is just an unusual replacement for the usual silver or ivory. Everything else about that one looks like northern Thai or Burmese work, usually lumped as "Hilltribe" craftmanship.

Ian.

Marsh Dagger
 

The Jambiya is indeed Iraqi, southern Iraq, from around Basra. Sometime called Marsh Dagger after the many marsh area around Basra

Hi Guys

Snapped off a few pics after I clean the daggers up so here they are.

Lew

The arm dagger
 

The arm dagger that you show has the same type of scabbard drag as the one in Flavio's thread of June 7 (Sudanese Dagger for Comment). The blade and hilt shapes however are very different. I also have a number of pieces with this same type of drag and widely varient hilt and blade styles (one isn't even an arm dagger). Does anyone know why this one feature should be found on so many different hilt and blade types?
Sincerely,
RobT

Hello guys. Rob is right, the sudanese dagger is quite similar to mine but in Spring's book there is an identical one.