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Drawing of Improvements in Hoop Skirts, 04/02/1861 

Dagger. 19th century, Iran. Steel blade with varnished wooden sheath. Would have been wielded by an Iranian gentleman, perhaps tucked into  a sash around a coat. The owner of this blade would have been a person of great status or wealth.

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" You seem to see numbers of tomorrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand father away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, ‘I’m coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!’ "
 Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
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