Algerian dagger?

[fennec]

Originally Posted by Pertinax

Thanks fennec for the info. Do you have any examples of fleece daggers before 1850?

Best regards,
Yuri

Yep mate, actually, I guess that a lot of those staight knives, are clearly from before 1830, and many things can proov that. First of all, a lot where tooken in the very few times of colonisation on algeria, but the tourists models actually made a lot of time to exist, after algeria was "pacified" (for the north..).
You can also notice that set displayed upper, is a pure "ottoman era" work, probably for someone important etc.. but not a tourist. A tourist will buy a beautifull sword, and well deocrated set, but here, is a WAR sword, with two usefull guns. Clearly the habitual set of ottman era. So the knives are obvioulsy from same period (pobably not very old, but before france, and not decorative). Even the arabic sentences are directly in relation with battle war etc, mentionning Allah etc... not the kinds of things we made later for tourists.

However, I also have this beautifull baby, that I think is even older that those ones.. I'll try to find you some other models soon