A GVR ROYAL NAVAL DIRK, 45.5cm blade by GIEVES, etched with scrolling foliage, crowned fouled anchor and crowned GVR cypher, regulation copper gilt hilt with lion's head pommel, wire bound fishskin grip contained in its copper mounted leather scabbard, the upper mount engraved with the owner's initials P.C.O.M., complete with knot. A small note accompanying the dirk states it was worn at the conference of Aqaba in 1925.