Baghdad Jambiya

[Aurangzeb]

Hello All!

I bought this nice Iraqi Jambiya recently. It is good quality, not very touristy. It has a nice good blade and the hilt and sheath are of good quality silver not white metal. The engravings are of decent quality. The knife several English engravings, on the hilt it says " D.A.L. From J.D.D.S" and below that "B.T.F. 1954". On the front of the sheath it says "Baghdad". I think the English engravings were added later or at the time of purchase due to the personel nature of some of the engravings and the crudeness compared to the rest of the engravins. There is also a small arabic engraving above the one engraving I can get pictures of it if desired. There are also several interesting engravings of copper plates such as a man on a camel, the Ctesiphon arch, a mosque, a man in a small round boat on a river, and a Dhow on a river as well as typical floral designs. The copper plate engravings are of good quality in detail. Overall the dagger is very well made with solder seams barely showing and the sturdiness of the knife and sharpness of the blade. It is almost too good to be a tourest knife but seems to have been purchesed by one. It is shown with various Iraqi memerobilia such as dinars and war medals as well as a portrait of Saddam, but that last ones pritty obvious. Comments are welcome!

Mark...