Bosnian Bichaq

gp · 13th August 2022, 08:40 PM

a new one which I hardly have seen:
the round top of the hilt / grip and not "fancied up" with metallic support or decoration.
Be it as support of the blade or just as an additional decoration.
Total lenght: 36 cm, bichaq only 35 cm

Judging by the decorations on the blade, this looks exactly the same like the Sarajevo ones I have prior the Austrian occupation in 1878 or the latest in the transition 1878.
So definetly Ottoman period, which I would judge timewise between 1850-1870.

The round top reminds me of the Ottoman gravestones in Bosnia, specially in Sarajevo which were in Ottoman times decorated with this turban-like decoration at the top, which looks similar here with the bichaq...

Your thoughts please, what do you think ? or is it just a misplaced silly and wrong assumption ?

13th August 2022, 08:40 PM	#28
gp Member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 830	a new one which I hardly have seen: the round top of the hilt / grip and not "fancied up" with metallic support or decoration. Be it as support of the blade or just as an additional decoration. Total lenght: 36 cm, bichaq only 35 cm Judging by the decorations on the blade, this looks exactly the same like the Sarajevo ones I have prior the Austrian occupation in 1878 or the latest in the transition 1878. So definetly Ottoman period, which I would judge timewise between 1850-1870. The round top reminds me of the Ottoman gravestones in Bosnia, specially in Sarajevo which were in Ottoman times decorated with this turban-like decoration at the top, which looks similar here with the bichaq... Your thoughts please, what do you think ? or is it just a misplaced silly and wrong assumption ? Attached Images Last edited by gp; 13th August 2022 at 11:54 PM.

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