Dagger "khanjar" ·  India · ID: 3042246

Description

damask steel blade, handle in shape of a horse head made from glass or rock crystal (rare!), painted with bridle and floral elements in gold paint, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, light wooden sheath stretched with blue velvet;
the name “khanjar” is Arab and means knife or dagger and is used in many countries for many different weapons. Usually it shows a pistol-shaped hilt made from wood, bone, ivory or in rare cases from glass, sometimes formed as a horse head or floral elements. The blades are always sharp and pointed, sometime also serrated.

Comparing literature

Stone, George Cameron, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in all countries and all times, New York 1934, p. 353