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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 437312, member: 2844"]Another possibility could be one of the Berber daggers, related to the Moroccan koummya. And Berbers will happily mount glass on silver, something I can't see the Omanis doing.</p><p>These are koummyas:</p><p><img src="https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2018/7/17/9/3/0/9304c490-ee57-47b4-8bbf-5f8f8a43596a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours is different, the rings are asymmetric, and the pommel slightly more elegant. And the koummya has a different blade to yours, but it could be a relative, so to speak. Koummyas also have dainty finials.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 437312, member: 2844"]Another possibility could be one of the Berber daggers, related to the Moroccan koummya. And Berbers will happily mount glass on silver, something I can't see the Omanis doing. These are koummyas: [IMG]https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2018/7/17/9/3/0/9304c490-ee57-47b4-8bbf-5f8f8a43596a.jpg[/IMG] Yours is different, the rings are asymmetric, and the pommel slightly more elegant. And the koummya has a different blade to yours, but it could be a relative, so to speak. Koummyas also have dainty finials.[/QUOTE]
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