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Old 17th February 2015, 07:38 PM   #1
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Default Khanjar made from old Sabre

Just won the auction for this. I have no idea where it's from, but it looks a little like the khanjars from Syria. Or maybe Kurdish or Iraqi or Marsh Arab? The blade looks to be made from a rather old sabre, and the scabbard/hilt look like wood with copper and mother of pearl? Any idea where it's from?
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Old 17th February 2015, 10:17 PM   #2
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Not Kurdish or Iraqi or Marsh Arab...
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Old 17th February 2015, 11:40 PM   #3
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http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1036

This Turkish tourist dagger has similar mother of pearl inlays, but the shape is totally different.
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Old 18th February 2015, 10:28 AM   #4
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You have a lot of "fake" flintlock pistols with the same decoration.
Now your "tourist" dagger could be old, around the end of 19th to the beginning of 20th c. You have a lot of so-called late Qajar who were also "tourist" objects...
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Old 18th February 2015, 12:07 PM   #5
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Odd that they'd use a nice sabre blade on a souvenir. Maybe they were plentiful back then.
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Old 18th February 2015, 06:33 PM   #6
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You can find similar decoration on some old arab furniture, usually said to be Syrian or possibly Egyptian.
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Old 18th February 2015, 07:53 PM   #7
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It does indeed look like Syrian furniture, although much more crudely executed. This link has an example and some history.

http://www.akbik.com/syrian-mother-o...-wedding-chest
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I received this today and I have to agree it's just a souvenir albeit an older one. The blade does appear to be from a real sabre, but it only extends about a quarter inch into the hilt. It's held in place by a single pin and there's no tang to speak of. So while the blade won't slip out it does wobble back and forth. That doesn't seem like the kind of design you'd use for a functional weapon.

I imagine somebody took a broken old sabre, cut it into 10 pieces and made it into ten souvenir daggers.
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