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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thank you for the insight, it seems Dagestan might be a good possibility after all. The dagger was auctioned off from quite an old German collection so perhaps the attribution comes from true... |
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![]() Thanks, I am still pretty stoked I got it. I agree that caucasian scabbards have similarly decorated fittings, and I am sure that is where the attribution by the auctioneer comes from, but I have... |
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![]() The first maker's cartouche I read as امل احمد خان, work of Ahmad Khan. The secend maker's cartouche I can not make out at all, there... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The big cartouche I can partially read, but I do not get the meaning: it starts حق نظز (haq nadhar), both are words which I know, but not their meaning in this context.... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Hello, I have been looking for years for a high quality persian style peshkabz and finally I was able to acquire one (two actually), although it took a kamikaze-like approach to get them. The blade... |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I also think the cartouche above says "bandeh-e velayat shah Abbas", as you would expect, but the calligraphy is not great and the picture is a bit blurry. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() That matches my experience, although I have never had the chance to use nital myself. Does your friend work on comission, or does he only do the work for you as a personal favor? I do have some... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() It's this one (عمل کلبعلی). Also some more swords with snake motives which I think are all Qajar Persia, even the one with the disk pommel I... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The maker's cartouche reads kalb'ali. These engraved snakes can be found on quite a few 'extravagant' qajar era persian sword blades, mostly wootz tooas far as I have seen |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Can you source nital in the Netherlands as a private person? Here in Germany I have been trying to buy it several times, but not been able to without being associated with a lab. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thank you for the replies! I haven't even noticed that there are two Bikaner-specific lines present in that whole jumble. Perhaps the sword was 'on loan' for a while and had to be reshelfed when it... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() True, though usually there is only a sigle inscription. This one has a whole lot more written on it, it would be great to find out more about it. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Hi all, I have another piece to share, this time a nice tulwar sword. It is probably familiar to some of you because it has been sitting on a well known dealer's site for quite a while before I... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() On that note, look what I just now found while semi-randomly browsing around on instagram. I find this rather interesting, the only variation is with the characters in the upper right corner. Maybe... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Yep, that picture is better than the one on their website. I think I photographed this one out of one of Robert Elgood's books. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I actually sifted through my refererence picture collection when I got the sword months ago to compare it to other examples. I thought I could not get to these because I am away from my home computer... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() True, that's why I was sure it actually had some meaning. Perhaps it's just nonsensical, made by someone illiterate in the script. I'm pretty sure I have seen indian blades with meaningless... |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Okay, with a whole lot of fiddling I think I managed to trick my cell phone camera into being a bit less crappy for a second, but I don't know if it is enough :shrug: |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Since I got such a quick and expert response on my last post here is another head scratcher. It concerns a pulwar with a well made blade, which I believe was made in northern India. Besides some... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() You are right, it's also not quite completely formed. That only leaves the sign on the left of that unaccounted for, which looks a bit like a 'jim' form letter connecting into the border of the... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I think the extra dot belongs to the 'nun' from Khuqandi and has just wandered off to the side. Thank your for the write-up, I will have to read up on that. |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thank you so much, I never would have gotten that myself! If I understand you correctly the 'alef' from Bilal is partially rubbed out and the 'lam' like sign inside the date is actually a malformed... |
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