Oriental-Arms is a family hobby started more than four decades ago, when Artzi Yarom received an old dagger as his fifteenth birthday present from a family member. This started a collection focusing on Ethnographic Weapons from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Avner Yarom, Artzi's son was also "infected" and joined the hobby. The collection is now - concentrated around a core of several hundreds Jambiya daggers from all over the Islamic world.

Now, after more than forty years of collecting, we are proud to share our experience with all lovers of Oriental arm and armor. Our goal is to encourage the interest in the collection of antique weapons from Asian and African cultures. Our objective is to provide collectors with fine, clearly identified, correctly defined, and well described items. We will be happy to provide free services for identification of various antique weapons, authentication and appraisal (in such cases that there is no conflict of interest). Oriental-Arms participates extensively in various forums dealing with antique arms and armor and organizing seminars related to the subject.

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