Yataghan Spot the Difference

[Rumpel]

Sylektis, thanks for the photos. I guess I should feel reassured, and I do in a slightly red-faced way...

Are those photos from the NHM in Athens, or the Ali Pasha museum in Ioannina? Part of the reason I was wary about the inscriptions is I'd seen many identical ones in that little place off the Flea Market, if you know where I mean. Perhaps too many...

You're right, I think there's a gap in the market for yataghan catalogues of the less-than-pasha quality. In an odd way, I suppose it's exciting how speculative analysis is even on a forum like this.

Anyway, efharisto para poli yia voithia sou me to Yataghani pragmati (sorry, my Greek's appalling... )

[David]

Here's one more for you Rumpel in post #8.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=10672

[David]

Originally Posted by Rumpel

Are those photos from the NHM in Athens, or the Ali Pasha museum in Ioannina? Part of the reason I was wary about the inscriptions is I'd seen many identical ones in that little place off the Flea Market, if you know where I mean. Perhaps too many...

If you followed the link provided Rumpel you would see that the images in this book come from a museum in Zagreb.

[Rumpel]

Originally Posted by David

If you followed the link provided Rumpel you would see that the images in this book come from a museum in Zagreb.

Hi David, sorry, I meant the 1st and last photos Sylektis provided, with the provenance info in Greek next to them- presumably from a Greek museum.

Thanks for the link to the Pandour post. Curiouser and curiouser... I need to get that Zagreb catalogue, I think.

[David]

Originally Posted by Rumpel

Hi David, sorry, I meant the 1st and last photos Sylektis provided, with the provenance info in Greek next to them- presumably from a Greek museum.

Thanks for the link to the Pandour post. Curiouser and curiouser... I need to get that Zagreb catalogue, I think.

Oh, i see....sorry for the misunderstanding...

[Sylektis]

Originally Posted by Rumpel

Sylektis, thanks for the photos. I guess I should feel reassured, and I do in a slightly red-faced way...

Are those photos from the NHM in Athens, or the Ali Pasha museum in Ioannina? Part of the reason I was wary about the inscriptions is I'd seen many identical ones in that little place off the Flea Market, if you know where I mean. Perhaps too many...

You're right, I think there's a gap in the market for yataghan catalogues of the less-than-pasha quality. In an odd way, I suppose it's exciting how speculative analysis is even on a forum like this.

Anyway, efharisto para poli yia voithia sou me to Yataghani pragmati (sorry, my Greek's appalling... )

The 1 and 4 are from the NHM in Athens (also in Elgood book foto 164), the others from auctions.

In all these blades can anyone read dates?