Scarce Antique Islamic North African Berber Quillon Dagger with Crescent Pommel

A scarce antique, Islamic, North African, early Berber dagger in the form of a 14th-century European medieval knight's quillon dagger with a crescent pommel.
The sword has a straight, double-edged blade that tapers to a point. The ricasso of the blade is decorated with an engraved ornament. The hilt is made of flattened bronze and has a sturdy cross-guard with a rectangular section. The cross-guard is incised in a geometrical pattern. The pommel is crescent-shaped and has a small hole for a suspension string in the middle.
The most known Berber daggers come from the 19th and 20th centuries. No early examples of Berber daggers are known, which is very strange since Berbers were known in antiquity to the Greeks and Romans as skillful warriors. Also, during the Muslim conquest of North Africa (Maghrib) 647–709 AD and for the conquest of Spain between 711–732 AD, the Arabs recruited Berber warriors because they knew them as perfect warriors well-armed with weapons, swords, and daggers.
Therefore, what happened to the earlier examples of Berber daggers? Perhaps, over the centuries of use, most of them were damaged and unsuitable for combat weapons, and metal was used as scrap metal for making other objects.
Since the dagger is made in the style of medieval knightly daggers, and the blade is in an excavated condition with a dark patina that appears on medieval swords and daggers, this dagger may b