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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 269526, member: 54"]I'd call it a mid-20th. C. Souvenir dagger. It doesn't have a shape I recognize but might as likely be Mid-eastern as Asian. If you look at Stone's book (Glossary of Arms and Armor...)!or web copies of it or parts of it, you will probably see one with that shape which will be identified to a particular country.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me the decoration doesn't help me with origin; looks like the maker had one or two stamps he used over and over to make little designs. The sheath is sheet brass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 269526, member: 54"]I'd call it a mid-20th. C. Souvenir dagger. It doesn't have a shape I recognize but might as likely be Mid-eastern as Asian. If you look at Stone's book (Glossary of Arms and Armor...)!or web copies of it or parts of it, you will probably see one with that shape which will be identified to a particular country. To me the decoration doesn't help me with origin; looks like the maker had one or two stamps he used over and over to make little designs. The sheath is sheet brass.[/QUOTE]
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