80 - Short sword with brass hilt and curved dagger of jambiya type, pierced blade, brass scabbard

Short sword with brass hilt and curved dagger of jambiya type, pierced blade, brass scabbard Steel, brass, wood, bone and horn. Two edged weapons: 1) Short sword of dagger length with narrow, straight, double-edged blade with fuller. The brass hilt: short, plain crossguard with slightly upturned ends, ferrule, plain wooden sleeve as grip and brass pommel with acanthus decoration and disc finial. L. 40 cm, blade length 26 cm. 2) Curved dagger of jambiya type, the strongly curved blade engraved on both sides with scrollwork and at the base with grouped round piercings. The dark horn guard with upturned ends on both sides, the grip with bone grip plates on both sides with incised lozenge and line decoration and hook-shaped, reddish-dark horn pommel. With the scabbard of engraved brass sheet with lattice and leaf decoration. L. 27.5 cm, blade length 17 cm. Condition commensurate with age, the blades stained, the wooden sleeve of the short sword cracked, the sheet metal of the scabbard rubbed and dented. Curved daggers with strongly curved, double-edged blade are found under the Arabic name jambiya from the Balkans via Anatolia and Persia to Arabia and North Africa; grip, guard and scabbard follow regional forms from which the origin of a piece can be read. Round piercings and engraved scrolls at the base of the blade are decorative forms that occur in many of these regions. Short swords with brass hilt and wooden grip were carried in Europe in the 19th c. as hunting, traditional costume and ornamental weapons.