A beautiful and ancient dagger with a rhino horn handle...

A beautiful and ancient dagger with a rhino horn handle and its sheath "koummiya", Marrakech or Agadir?, Morocco. The blade bears an inscription Coller Agader
Antique dagger "koummiya" with a rhinoceros handle and its exceptional sheath wearing the inscription Coller Agader, Meknes, Morocco

Beautiful dagger "Koummiya" with a handle in rhinoceros horn and making a counterpart of the dagger preserved at the Musée du Quai Branly of the Maurice Bernard donation, and kept under the inventory number 74.1960.4.92.1-2, with a handle also in rhinoceros horn, silver, iron, chiseling. Previous collection: Musée national des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie (Maghreb).
Other daggers of this type are kept at the Musée du Quai Branly.
The dagger from the Maurice Bernard collection is attributed to a workshop in Marrakech. It is quite possible that it is the same workshop that carved the scabbard and part of the handle. The inscription Coller Agader, which is of very fine engraving quality, shows that the blade of this dagger is much superior to that of the dagger in the Musée du Quai Branly. This leads us to believe that Marrakesh is not the only possible place of manufacture. Good condition. Minor wear.

Beginning of the XXth century circa 1913
40 x 6 cm Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.