£4,900
20th century gold covered traditional style Arab Jambiya dagger and scabbard. Tests as gold, with curved steel blade, the handle and scabbard with engraved and applied foliate decoration, overall 26cm long including scabbard, together with a probably Syrian or Middle Eastern felt waistcoat with gold embroidered thread work decoration. (2) Provenance: The dagger presented to 'Mr Sobhi El-Ejel', Consul General for the Syrian Arab Republic and Dean of Consular Corps in India. Mr El-Ejel was a Syrian National who, having originally been a freedom fighter in Syria achieved high status with the independence of the country, becoming Consul for Syria in Bombay before the Embassy was established in New Delhi Served in other countries and returned to Bombay as Consul General, awarded various orders of merit across the Middle East, having a singular devotion 'To Work for the Consolidation of Close Relations between India and the Arab World'. Married a Welsh Lady from Carmarthenshire. (B.P. 21% + VAT)
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