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A Silver-Mounted Arabian Shamshir Captured From Sheikh Yousef Said Abu Dorrah, Commander-In-Chief Of The Holy Arab RevolutionLate 19th Century, Captured In 1938
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Find your local specialistA Silver-Mounted Arabian Shamshir Captured From Sheikh Yousef Said Abu Dorrah, Commander-In-Chief Of The Holy Arab Revolution
Late 19th Century, Captured In 1938
Late 19th Century, Captured In 1938
83.3 cm. blade
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Provenance
Captured by Colonial Policeman Geoffrey J. Morton, together with other personal belongings of Sheikh Yousef Said Abu Dorrah during a combined police and military operation at Rummaneh village, Jenin Division on 4 August 1938 from which he narrowly escaped. Following his escape Abu Dorrah returned to the village soon after and murdered the mukhtar, a crime for which he was executed at the Central Prison, Jerusalem, on 18 February 1941
For a full account see Geoffrey J. Morton, Just The Job, Some Experiences of A Colonial Policeman, 1957, Chapter XI, pp. 82-86 (offered with the lot); and Patrick Bishop, The Reckoning..., 2015








