Hi chaps, picked this up this morning, while touring round in a seaside antique/junk shop, a Wootz Marsh Arab dagger can anyone help with translation of the scabbard writing please?
I think Blade appears to be reformed from an older blade that shows minimal remains of what was perhaps a gold cartouche just by the grip. Was this re use of old sword blades common in these knives, I wonder?
Any ideas to the meaning of the lion on the back of scabbard?
Blade needs polishing/etching but the wootz pattern is quite clear.
All thoughts opinions & of course translations welcome.
Spiral
