Zanzibar/Yemen Saif with an Ethiopian Blade

[Jim McDougall]

Hi Teodor,
Interesting question, and while it seems simple enough to answer without hesitation, there is a good degree of complexity involved.

As I think I have expounded too much already I am excercising all possible restraint to avoid my views on 'cookie cutter' identification and typologies !

So I defer to simplicity , and would suggest that whenever a weapon exceeds the defined image in which it is commonly held in typology, it is best to add descriptive qualification with specific reference to it.
Hmmm, is that axiomatic?

So, though we know what this is, a composite with apparant integrity as it appears to have been servicably maintained with the components that give us its overall history, it is not specifically one type or another.

With that..perhaps a Bedouin sabre, generally of Palestinian form and with Red Sea trade associations.

All this restraint is killin me
Outa here !
Jim