Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 01 May 2019
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λ Eight Syrian daggers (jambiya)
λ Eight Syrian daggers (jambiya), each with a stout curved blade and a banded hilt formed of bone, brass, ebonised wood and other materials; four examples having Arabic text etched to the fortes; and another having an Arabic inscription to a brass tablet on the hilt. [8]