An interesting passage on yatagans

ariel · 19th September 2006, 08:23 PM

Oh, no!
There are many, many yataghans dated second half of the 19th century. Many gorgeous ones, so your Old Turk was just a "Negative Nancy": Yataghan remained a symbol of Ottoman masculinity for a long time!
I do not recall seeing any of the 20th century (maybe one or two).
But then, again, Yataghans were produced in a multitude of former Ottoman "colonies" and I would guess that they got extinct even later....

19th September 2006, 08:23 PM	#4
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Oh, no! There are many, many yataghans dated second half of the 19th century. Many gorgeous ones, so your Old Turk was just a "Negative Nancy": Yataghan remained a symbol of Ottoman masculinity for a long time! I do not recall seeing any of the 20th century (maybe one or two). But then, again, Yataghans were produced in a multitude of former Ottoman "colonies" and I would guess that they got extinct even later....