Are Asadollah cartouches/signatures found on Ottoman blades? Or only Persian blades?

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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Would be interested to know of examples or references showing Afghan blades with spurious examples of the pictograph lion or signature of Assad Allah.
Also, the Ottoman and Indian examples with these blades, are there references saying these blades were made by swordsmiths in those regions? The only examples I have seen are locally hilted in their styles mounted with trade blades of the familiar pictograph type.

Here is one Afghan example with a spurious Asadullah marking, from the forum.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18215

My hypothesis is due to how fashionable asadullah blades were Afghans copied the markings, similar to how Italian eyelash markings were copied by Indian craftsman on their blades. I wonder if only the afghans did this, or if it was widespread among makers of shamshir style blades