Opinion on Sold Ebay Shamshir

erlikhan · 26th January 2006, 03:57 PM

I requested close ups of this shamshir during the auction and saw that the scabbard, its mountings and cross guard are all new and silver koftgari cheaply done. Blade must be old.

RSWORD · 26th January 2006, 04:32 PM

It is most probably a piece mounted up in Syria with all new fittings and koftgari utilizing an older Shamshir blade. Hard to tell the coloration of the blade in the pictures but the wootz pattern seems typical of Syrian/Turkish wootz.

26th January 2006, 03:57 PM	#1
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	I requested close ups of this shamshir during the auction and saw that the scabbard, its mountings and cross guard are all new and silver koftgari cheaply done. Blade must be old.

26th January 2006, 04:32 PM	#2
RSWORD Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Greensboro, NC Posts: 1,087	It is most probably a piece mounted up in Syria with all new fittings and koftgari utilizing an older Shamshir blade. Hard to tell the coloration of the blade in the pictures but the wootz pattern seems typical of Syrian/Turkish wootz.