Middle Eastern Dagger for comment

[Dom]

Originally Posted by kahnjar1

Can anyone tell me please:
1.Where it comes from.
2.The translation of the Arabic on the small hilt cartouche, and on the blade.

Hi Stu
after ... some ... years
in the cartouche
AMAL SCAN ??? either MADE BY SCAN ??? (driani ???)
it's my ... imagination push me to said "SCANDRIANI"
(the guy coming from Alexandria ...
but there are plenty cities, towns, villages named Alexandria, not just in Egypt, but in Syria, in Turkey, may be in Iraq ...

... I know, all that it's not much helpful
specially, to translate what is on the blade ...

regards

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Dom