Picked this up on eBay

[M ELEY]

It's a 17th century Turkish dagger...NOT!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280559313245&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Actually, it's a naval dress dirk, probably British, circa 1805-20, made in the Arabic styling of the period. After the Barbary Wars and the Egyptian Campaigns, naval items in the U.K. and America began to take on the so-called mameluke styling.

Here are a few more I found online-
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/101.jpg
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/105.jpg
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/107.jpg
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/106.jpg

Just thought I'd share it with the Forum as it is an unusual form and I stumbled on it quite by . Thanks-
Mark

[celtan]

Congrats Eley!

: )

It's a 17th century Turkish dagger...NOT!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280559313245&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Actually, it's a naval dress dirk, probably British, circa 1805-20, made in the Arabic styling of the period. After the Barbary Wars and the Egyptian Campaigns, naval items in the U.K. and America began to take on the so-called mameluke styling.

Here are a few more I found online-
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/101.jpg (http://www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/101.jpg)
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/105.jpg (http://www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/105.jpg)
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/107.jpg (http://www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/107.jpg)
www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/106.jpg (http://www.robertfinan.co.uk/images30042005/106.jpg)

Just thought I'd share it with the Forum as it is an unusual form and I stumbled on it quite by . Thanks-
Mark

[M ELEY]

Thanks, Manuel. Too bad it's missing the scabbard toe. Perhaps I'll find a replacement somewhere...

[M ELEY]

Still waiting for this little beauty's arrival. In the mean-time, any suggestions out there about how I might repair the sheath or even if I should? Perhaps a new brass toe piece or maybe the leather end of an old sheath? Does anyone have an old disgarded leather scabbard or brass piece they may wish to part with??

[M ELEY]

Interesting development on this liitle dirk. On the guard is a named etched faintly into it marked "Ohaoda". This threw me at first, but knowing that it came from an Irish estate, I did some research and turned up the Gaelic name AHaoda as the equivilent of "Hughes". Turns out that when i contacted the seller, that was his family name (he had never even seen the tracing as it is so faint. I had to use a magnifier to see it). Perhaps a little research might turn up something, but I'm guessing from the small hilt that he was a mid-shipman (who, in the Brit and Amer navies of the time, could be as young as 10!) probably during the 1810-30 period.

[Dmitry]

Somehow I overlooked this thread. This is an excellent little dirk, of uncommonly-seen grip style.
I saved the photos of it. At times I stumble upon an ebay thread that is rendered almost meaningless w/out photos.

[M ELEY]

Thank you so much, Dmitry, for saving these. I had saved the eBay auction, but the pics went down soon after. I was happy to have acquired this little dirk.