Show us your stirrups

[Kubur]

Ola
Agreed these stirrups are not Ottoman, the Ottomans stirrups are different as you said (see the ones in Tokape catalogue).
Why are they frequently mixed with Turkish/Ottoman stirrups?
What I'll write is only my opinion.
The Ottoman cavalry sipahi was re-invented in Algeria during the French colonial period, when the French created an unit called Spahi (1831). They standardised their stirrups on the North African models (Algeria/Morocco). I suspect half of your stirrups to be regular spahi stirrups (late 19th).
Indeed the North African stirrups might have been influenced by al-Andalus after 1492 or even before.
Now the tricky part is there is still a possibility that North African stirrups are in fact a local variation of the Ottoman stirrups introduced through Algeria as an Ottoman province...
To be continued...

[midelburgo]

Thank you Kubur.

This entry from a WW1 forum makes thinks a bit more clear:

http://lagrandeguerre.1fr1.net/t79229-spahis

Now, I wonder how the surplus stirrups ended up in Calatayud?


For the captions:
Etiquette: "Etriers de Moha ou Hassan el Zaiani tué le 13 Novembre 1914; pris dans sa tente par le moghazni Omar el Zaiani et donné au Cne Ract-Brancaz blessé dans la matinée.

Then, there could be an Italian connection from North Africa to Ottoman?
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/32232
The ones at the bottom are said to be Milanese XVIth century.