19th century AD. A very large iron dagger, curved with a thick double edge blade, handleposed of wood and iron, ornately decorated with lozenges, fastened by eight iron flat headed rivets. See similar blades in Lebedynsky, J., Les Armes Orientales, Langres, 1992, pp.107ff. 118 grams, 32cm long (12 1/2"). Private family collection formed in London, mid 1980s to early 1990s. Among the vario gro of Arab daggers, the one from North Africa is characterized by rather fine blades made in the Turkish-Persian style. ually the handles (in wood, ivory and metal) feature a large rounded pommel in the guise of peacock feathers. This type ismon in Morocco, Tunisia and up to Egypt, and is a type of Khandjar ually called Koummiya or Goummiya (a term later adopted in Spanish as Goumia, to indicate all the short Arab daggers).