An Ornate Yemeni Jambiya Archive an obscured city mark

an obscured city mark

32 mm each

The bayonet frog is also finished on its upper with a white shoe polish

1946 but was forced to retire on Medical Grounds

135 died of disease

An Ornate Yemeni Jambiya Archive an obscured city markAn Ornate Yemeni Jambiya The short curved steel blade measures 215 mm in length and has a raised fuller on both sides, the saifani hilt has a T shaped grip, in either ivory or horn (possibly translucent yellow rhinoceros horn), with multiple nails placed along the blackened upper, a brass disk at one end with a stamped coat of arms, the matching disk at the other end near the blade having been lost to time, both disks having been held in place by