european blade Yataghan

SERGIU · 28th January 2012, 11:17 AM

thanks Jim, I checked out the Wagner book Hieb- und Stichwaffen, and you are right. Meanwhile I found informations in some osprey books, but about the pallash blade, maybe it is not a pallash, because the blade is too short for a pallash and the Blutrinne seem short to fit the blade.So chances are to be a blade ment for business as a yat.

Jim McDougall · 28th January 2012, 10:50 PM

Good call Sergiu, it very well might be a shorter heavy type blade used for the hanger type weapons used by auxiliary forces such as sappers, miners and also by artillery gunners. The yataghan term is of course often misapplied in the description of some weapons, and of course used with reference to the bifurcated or eared pommel hilt rather than the weapon overall. I wish I had some of the reference books on Austro-Hungarian and Polish swords with me here in the bookmobile

I think some of the references might show this type of blade.
Its definitely a handsome sword in any case and maybe somebody out there might have more info.

All the best,
Jim

28th January 2012, 11:17 AM	#1
SERGIU Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Timisoara, Romania Posts: 32	thanks Jim, I checked out the Wagner book Hieb- und Stichwaffen, and you are right. Meanwhile I found informations in some osprey books, but about the pallash blade, maybe it is not a pallash, because the blade is too short for a pallash and the Blutrinne seem short to fit the blade.So chances are to be a blade ment for business as a yat.

28th January 2012, 10:50 PM	#2
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,595	Good call Sergiu, it very well might be a shorter heavy type blade used for the hanger type weapons used by auxiliary forces such as sappers, miners and also by artillery gunners. The yataghan term is of course often misapplied in the description of some weapons, and of course used with reference to the bifurcated or eared pommel hilt rather than the weapon overall. I wish I had some of the reference books on Austro-Hungarian and Polish swords with me here in the bookmobile I think some of the references might show this type of blade. Its definitely a handsome sword in any case and maybe somebody out there might have more info. All the best, Jim