Royal Armouries image collection.

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Originally Posted by Kubur

Hi Strech
You are amazing to find pictures!
Very useful and first mistake they did it's a tiger dagger from Northern India.
Best,
Kubur

Commonly known as an Indian tiger tooth jambiya but for some reason they seem to have labeled almost all of their jambiya and khanjar as khanjar.

Here is another very weird thing they have done with several images, they surround the item being photographed with pieces of black paper? This is an Ottoman kilij, but they have labeled it as a

Sword (kilic) (1700-1799) kilic Persian blade European mounts 19th.century

you can see how it looks on their site and after I edited both images extensively, I just do not see any "European mounts" though and no evidence that I can see which would make the blade "Persian". Further down they describe the blade this way

the blade of the sword is single edge, curved widening slightly and becoming double edged near the point in the turkish manner.

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Oh i can tell you why they did these mistakes.
First the decoration is ottoman baroque, clearly with European influences, but it's not European. Second for a lot of people all wootz blade is Persian.
It could be...

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Originally Posted by Kubur

Oh i can tell you why they did these mistakes.
First the decoration is ottoman baroque, clearly with European influences, but it's not European. Second for a lot of people all wootz blade is Persian.
It could be...

But this is the Royal Armouries, they have a lot of people with experience there, they never mention "Ottoman" either. Here is another one,

Sabre and scabbard (1615-1635) Mameluke-hilted sabre and scabbard Place: Turkey

I think if I described my kilij as a "Mameluk hilted sabre" I might get some laughs.

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They do have some nice weapons and armor though. Here is another kilij, this one clearly has a Persian blade

Sword (kilic) (1772) By Ismail son of Asad Allah Isfahani. Place: Turkey

....at least be consistant!!

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Here is an interesting sword...

German blade dated 1697; Indian hilt 18th century

....is this an "Indian hilt" or a European hilt with Indian decoration?

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Looks like a sossun to me

Sword (khanda) (1771-1799) Place: India, Gujerat

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Here is a real interesting one.........

Sword (talwar) (1800-1899) Place: Germany

Do they even have the right sword here, it says this sword has a "knuckle bow" and "black leather" covered scabbard????

https://collections.royalarmouries.o...ect-21372.html

The blade is single edged and slightly curved, with two narrow fullers beside the flat back in which there are traces of decoration. The ricasso has some burnished zig-zag decoration on a dull ground. The russet iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with a small dish pommel, swelling grip, short quillons, a knuckle bow, and a pierced swivel loop on the pommel button. It is decorated in silver koftgari with scrolling foliage and flowers. The scabbard is of wood covered in black leather with an iron chape.