A GOLD-DAMASCENED HILTED STEEL KHANJAR DAGGER
Possibly Ottoman Turkey or modern-day Azerbaijan, late 19th century

With a curved double-edged steel blade with a thick medial ridge, the I-shaped hilt decorated with gold-damascened vegetal and floral motifs throughout, the backside of the forte with a rectangular cartouche inscribed The Work of 'Uthman (?), encased in a brown leather-lined wooden scabbard, 39cm long including the scabbard.