Well, many of them have a bird-mark 
 
And actually many Jordan and Syrian daggers of XX century have Gregorian date as I could discover through collecting some and searching the Web. Maybe it started because of Europeans in that regions, who purchased those as souvenirs?
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
				  
				
					
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