#khanjar

[uboga]

Curved dagger (khanjar) with rock crystal hilt. India, 18th century

[thatshowthingstarted]

Horse Handle Lapis Lazuli Dagger khanjar,

Persian, 19th Century CE.

The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

[philoursmars]

Mi-mai, mon cousin Olivier et sa compagne franco-américaine Bonnie, sont venus me voir. D'où une visite obligatoire au Louvre-Lens :

khanjar, poignard à tête de cheval, pommeau en jade gris, or, rubis - Inde moghole, 160-1700

Eustache Le Sueur - "Réunion d'amis" - Paris, 1640

miroir à double battant, nacre et écaille de tortue - Turquie, 1600-1800

Jusepe de Ribera - "Saint Jean l'Evangéliste" - Naples, 1607

Giuseppe Maria Crespi - "La Femme à la puce" - Bologne, 1720

voir 2

voir 1

[theoutcastrogue]

"Daggers and poniards", from Guide des amateurs d'armes et armures anciennes by Auguste Demmin (1869), translated as Weapons of War by C.C. Black (1870)

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[koenji]

antique persian khanjar with painted wooden handle and curved blade with floral decoration in copper.

[lghumphriessons]

18ct white Gold Breguet Khanjar Palace Watch Manual Wind 34mm Year1998 $18,500-

[lightstairs1902]

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would we not shatter it to bits-and then

Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

-Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

[khanger]

Jambiya Yemeni Dagger