Hi Alan
I believe we've met.
I am going to take a wild, intuitive stab and say this dagger in form reminds me of a Swiss Dagger or Baselard (Schweitzerdegen). Some of them seemed to have had those type of downpointed quillons too.
So it's not too hard for me to see this as European. I agree, I've never seen an African or even an Islamic dagger like this, but then Africa is still largely an unkown to many collectors, including myself.
But I would say it might be European, maybe Swiss, and if so it would be quite old.
That's my best guess.
Regards
Ron
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