Have you seen the hilt is made of two pieces of horn and not one like on the Moroccan nimcha...
That is a great question. Sadly, I do not have any older nimchas in my collection where I can examine the hilt, but I suspect that the fancier Algerian ones with tortoise shell hilts have scales and not a single piece of horn underneath. I have also never been to Malta yet, but the collection of older examples there should probably provide some clues as well.
17th July 2018, 07:44 PM
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