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<p>[QUOTE="avant, post: 437126, member: 8151"]This is a truly beautiful dagger! Have you had it tested for silver content? The bone inlays are most likely camel bone. The stones look carnelian. As for its origin, I think this is an Omani dagger, of the al-Ganobi khanjar type. </p><p>Also, here is a reliable article with some more details on this and other types of Omani daggers: </p><p><a href="http://khanjar.om/Types.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://khanjar.om/Types.html" rel="nofollow">http://khanjar.om/Types.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="avant, post: 437126, member: 8151"]This is a truly beautiful dagger! Have you had it tested for silver content? The bone inlays are most likely camel bone. The stones look carnelian. As for its origin, I think this is an Omani dagger, of the al-Ganobi khanjar type. Also, here is a reliable article with some more details on this and other types of Omani daggers: [URL]http://khanjar.om/Types.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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