AN ARAB SILVER-MOUNTED JAMBIYA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade formed with a medial ridge (rust, small chips), silver-mounted rhinoceros horn grip (one small chip), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket, the front enriched with gold and silver thread and complete with its belt 17.2 cm; 6 ¾ in blade Provenance Basil Seager CMG OBE (1898-1977), British Political Officer of the Western Aden Protectorate from 1940.
AN ARAB SILVER-MOUNTED JAMBIYA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade formed with a medial ridge (rust, small chips), silver-mounted rhinoceros horn grip (one small chip), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket, the front enriched with gold and silver thread and complete with its belt 17.2 cm; 6 ¾ in blade Provenance Basil Seager CMG OBE (1898-1977), British Political Officer of the Western Aden Protectorate from 1940.
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