Lot 363

Description

Omani khanjar dagger, c1880, curved steel blade (length ignoring curve 15.5cm), with a handle in giraffe horn with a T-shaped pommel partly clad in silver and the guard area is elaborately decorated in silver with a scabbard of silvered and patterned wire wrapped wood with decorative silver section at top and decorative and patterned silvered tip, with large silvered loops at curved section and these extending to edge to be fitted to suspension strap, the back with material cover, this not original. With some oxidation on blade and glue remnants on back of handle and around back cover, otherwise fine.

No mail out for this lot, collection only from the Sydney Office, or buyer to make own arrangements.