Dated 1319 AH (=1901/1902) Features a steel blade with a...
Dated 1319 AH (=1901/1902)
Features a steel blade with a central fuller; the hilt and scabbard are inlaid with bone plaques decorated with gold arabesques. The scabbard is partially covered with nielloed and gilded silver. Dated on the back.
L. 26 cm
References:
Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armor: A Lifetime’s Passion, Butler Tanner and Dennis Ltd. (England, 2013). p. 102, fig. 250.
A small steel-bladed kinjal dagger with a nielloed and gilt silver hilt and scabbard, dated 1319 AH / 1901–02 AD.
Dated 1319 AH (=1901/1902)
Features a steel blade with a central fuller; the hilt and scabbard are inlaid with bone plaques decorated with gold arabesques. The scabbard is partially covered with nielloed and gilded silver. Dated on the back.
L. 26 cm
References:
Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armor: A Lifetime’s Passion, Butler Tanner and Dennis Ltd. (England, 2013). p. 102, fig. 250.
A small steel-bladed kinjal dagger with a nielloed and gilt silver hilt and scabbard, dated 1319 AH / 1901–02 AD.
