Dagger (jambiya) and sheath

 

Turkey or Balkan Peninsula, 19th century

 

Steel blade decorated with gold (overlay); hilt and sheath of silver repoussé and wood. Decorated with foliated ornamentation and calligraphy.

L: 37 cm

UMP 4867

 

Purchased from Heinrich Kautsch of České Budějovice in 1893.