Deux dagues Ottomanes en acier et manches en ivoire marin...
PROPERTY FROM A ROYAL COLLECTION
Deux dagues Ottomanes en acier et manches en ivoire marin (jambiyyas), Turquie XIXe siècle
Two Ottoman walrus-ivory hilted steel daggers (jambiyyas), Turkey, 19th Century
the first with double-edged watered-steel blade, the wood scabbard clad in velvet with silver mounts, sahh, 'true', mark to one side; the second with double-edged steel blade decorated in silver overlay, the scabbard clad in leather with steel mounts decorated en suite
the larger 52 cm. long(2)
Provenance
Galerie Temoin, Geneva, 1998.
Property from a Royal Collection.
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PROPERTY FROM A ROYAL COLLECTION
Deux dagues Ottomanes en acier et manches en ivoire marin (jambiyyas), Turquie XIXe siècle
Two Ottoman walrus-ivory hilted steel daggers (jambiyyas), Turkey, 19th Century
the first with double-edged watered-steel blade, the wood scabbard clad in velvet with silver mounts, sahh, 'true', mark to one side; the second with double-edged steel blade decorated in silver overlay, the scabbard clad in leather with steel mounts decorated en suite
the larger 52 cm. long(2)
Provenance
Galerie Temoin, Geneva, 1998.
Property from a Royal Collection.
