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Old 8th April 2016, 01:02 PM   #7
Gavin Nugent
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Originally Posted by motan
[FONT=Arial]Hello all. I am new to the forum and this is my first post. I live in Israel and my specific interest is in the daggers of the Levant. I am trying to build a small collection of them. I have recently bought a shibriya which looks different to anything I have seen before. It is slender and the hilt is made of wood. I have studied shibriyas in old photographs and I know that particularly in its early days in the twenties and thirties, there were many different styles and shapes. I also know from previous threads that some of you own very old and fine examples. Can anyone tell me something about the origin of this one? Thank you
Hello,

Syrian Bedouin is my understanding of this type of knife, one of the many variations found through the regions in the early 1900s.

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