MOORISH - MUDEJAR STYLE BOABDIL? DAGGER

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by fernando

I would agree on the 19th/beg 20th cent. Moorish revival guess ... but not necessarily Toledo. Examples from Toledo are usualy stamped with the city's nane ... and even dated.
Others will show up and tell you better.

This really is a pretty nice example, and Im inclined to go along with your learned assessment Nando! Anything made in Toledo in these times was so marked. Apparantly daggers of this type, but considerably more fanciful were made in Eibar, Spain about 50 years ago. The rich Moorish traditions of Andalusian Spain are celebrated in these Boabdil type daggers (last Moorish ruler of Granada, 1481-91) and an example seen in Faktor, 1989 #115.