Original 19th Century Classic Saudi Arabian Wide Polished Blade Jambiya Dagger with Scabbard and Belt Original Items

Original Item: Only One Available. Jambiya, also spelled janbia, janbiya, and jambia (Arabic: جنبية‎ janbīyah), is the Arabic term for dagger, but it is generally used to describe a specific type of dagger with a short curved blade. The term jambiya is used in various Arab countries and India, it is closely associated with the people of Yemen and is prevalent among Muslim men in the Horn of Africa (primarily the Afars of Djibouti).

If you look at original photographs of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in his traditional Arab robes, this is exactly the type of ARAB Dagger he carried in his waist band. This is the Classic Arab Dagger of the Sinai and great deserts of the Middle East that stretch all the way down to Yemen and the Oman on the Indian Ocean. 

This example, which is extremely clean, still has its scabbard of leather covered wood, together with its embroidered waist belt. The belt shows some later repairs, having been fitted with a modern belt buckle and adjustment belt, which are designed to be hidden behind the original material. Overall length of the belt is about 40 inches, and it looks like it would be adjustable from 38 to 33 inches with fastened.

The curved bright polished steel blade with central raised rib is over 8 1/2″ in length, and the dagger is 12 1/2″ in length overall. The Hilt is horn and decorated with silver and brass pins. The horn of the grip could possibly be Rhino horn, highly prized at the time, though there is no way to verify this.

A lovely honest Arab Jambiya dating to the mid to late 1800s and still in use during the First World War and a style still in use today.