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Originally Posted by TVV
Thank you for sharing this example with provenance, which gives a good idea about its dating. For future reference, would you be able to provide its length?
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Hy, offcourse, it is as i remember 72 cm in lenght, width i realy dont remember.
It is a realy nice piece.
There are allso “yatagan” swords with bird like handle and similar style handles with crossguards that have the same blade profile and age like these older yatagans, 17 century some even end of 16 century, but are very rare, and very few people know about them, which is a good thing, when one comes to auction, people place it for something strange, i purchased one from begining of 17 century, amazing example for very very small amount, they declared it like something from balkan
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There are allso ones with bent crossguards toward the blade like ottoman pala or ottoman version of gadara, some call them a naval yatagans but they are not that, they are just later from end of 17 but more begining of 18 century.