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Originally Posted by Battara
I love the wootz!
Not sure the scabbard and hilt are original to each other though.
Yes Ottoman jambiya.
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The wootz is awsome. I bought it with really dirty blade thinking that it might be wootz. I just cleaned it a little and etched it. I got a weird result with lighter patches near the gold koftgari. I polished and reetched with the same result.
Strangly they are uniform on both sides
Edit: Found at blade with similar difference in color, makes me think its been heat treated.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVkbZ8kg...-by=mkantiques
The scabbard and hilt do look like they dont match, maybe they dont. But this is pretty similar.
http://armsandantiques.com/19th-c-si...a-dagger-md428