My first Nimcha

[fennec]

Originally Posted by TVV

When it comes to this type of guard, here is another sword with it and an English hanger blade. That one does look very Moroccan.

Hi mate, and sorry again for the time to answer (dont hesitate to send me an email in case someday you want to ask me something "important", sometimes I'm more reactiv...lol)

Well, it could be, I mean, at first look I would say that, and I was about, but actually I have serious doubt. The only thing that would made it moroccan for me is the origin of the blade, but even those ones where mount on algerian nimcha (trading, or tooken during battles). The hole on the pommel (I know I know, that could look funny as a factor of algerian origin, but this is very reccurent) and the guard lead me more to an algerian one.
Compare your sword to those ones. First picture, that was upper, you see that nimcha, for most of people, this could be a moroccan one, if we had no scabbard. Hopefully it is, and those models are good to proof that those geometry (handle, but also blade shape) was also common in algeria.

Second picture you can see the same blade mount on an algerian sword (typical handle shape, guard quillons a bit shaped like the "algerian" rosebud shape, a possible hole on the pommel that was filled later with that brass flower).

Two others are to illustrate that "flower" decoration scheme I've talked about before, concerning the wooden handle of your navy nimcha (ex Eric). Something very close applied here by koftgari on a flissa dagger. So ovioulsy made in kabyle area (as the scabbards of first picture btw).