19th century A.D. 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, 32 cm long (12 1/2 in.). Private family collection formed in London, mid 1980s to early 1990s. Among the various Arab dagger gro, the one from North Africa is characterised by rather fine blades made in the Turkish-Persian style. Usually 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 all the way to Egypt, and is a type of Khandjar usually called Koummiya or Goummiya (a term later adopted in Spanish as Goumia, to indicate all the short Arab daggers).