Original African Spatula-shaped Dagger with Heavily Decorated Scabbard - c.1800 Knives & Daggers • 1926 dated fusse spring

• 1926 dated fusse spring cover

• James E

his father “was happy his ingenuity contributed to saving lives

Width: approx 3/4 inch

Original African Spatula-shaped Dagger with Heavily Decorated Scabbard - c.1800 Knives & Daggers • 1926 dated fusse springOriginal Item: Only One Available. This came into England in the early Victorian era around 1840 with returning Explorers. My father who was born in 1905 told me that as a boy he remembered seeing Atlases showing the Continent of Africa with "UNKNOWN" or "UNEXPLORED" printed across the interior. It was the likes of STANLEY and LIVINGSTONE who opened the central part of isolated Africa to the Western World. Our example of an early Central African