Talking About Daggers

Follow Arthur Bijl, Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour, as he considers the cultural role of daggers played in the Ottoman Empire through the poetic inscriptions on one enigmatic dagger from the sixteenth century.
For more information about daggers at the Wallace Collection, join us for January's Meet the Expert talk, where Arthur will be discussing a unique dagger made in medieval Herat: • Meet the Expert: Honed...

[@stevedunn5546]

Great to see what hides behind a very pretty knife as most would see it. Thanks.

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[@sinclairmarcus]

Great content

[@WilliamMurderface81]

It is a sin to deny a dying man water so sad to deny.

[@aznpholyfe6693]

what kind of dagger is it? like what is the name of that form of ottoman dagger

[@abomarsyr103]

I have an ottoman dagger

[@johnnelson1228]

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let me correct plz. "Stolen Stuff" from India

[@agnusdei8442]

magnificent

[@andreweden9405]

The vocal-fry is bad! Otherwise, it had the potential to be a great presentation.

[@jmsn36]

It's a shame that regardless of poetry being practiced still till this day it's not nearly as inspirational as it was back then

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[@flimz5199]

most silversmiths and goldsmiths in the ottoman empire were not turkish. but armenian. so i would settle down

[@alexfoster9900]

Thanks very interesting