Mysterious knife number 2

[mariusgmioc]

Originally Posted by francantolin

Hello Kubur ( and all !)

I got this tunisian Bizerte genoui dagger,
I think it's exactly the same as your last pictures !!
Was it your own dagger ?
( it traveled a little ...)

Late 19th century ?
Was this kind of dagger a ceremonial model or more a tourist made item ?
Really well made, and interesting to see the mixed mediterranean influences especially the spanish-hole blade ( was it made for poison it ?
just a deco... )

Regards

Touristy!

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by mariusgmioc

Touristy!

Ah Marius, I prefer when you write about etching...

[mariusgmioc]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Ah Marius, I prefer when you write about etching...

... yeah, then at least looks like I write about something I know...

[francantolin]

Hello and thank you for all the informations !!

does anybody know how do they for blackening the blade like that in the 19th century ?
by heating or oxydation ?
I don't think they used gun blue !

[kronckew]

Tannic acid turns rust a nice black and stabilises the rust.

[mariusgmioc]

Originally Posted by francantolin

Hello and thank you for all the informations !!

does anybody know how do they for blackening the blade like that in the 19th century ?
by heating or oxydation ?
I don't think they used gun blue !

They did it like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niello

[Kubur]

Here is the classic Tunisian dagger from 1900 1920ties
But it wont be fair to call it touristy, i prefer to say colonial souvenir....
These daggers are very sharp and very pointy, not toys.
It will be cool if Ibraheem or others can translate the inscription...

[Kubur]

And here the early 19th c one