decorated axe head

[Battara]

I'll second that, Course 8........

[Jens Nordlunde]

Thommo,

Interesting axe head you show, but could you possible show better pictures of the decoration?

CourseEight, the axe head you give a link to from Oriental Arms – attached – is chiselled, and the one shown by Thommo seems to be koftgari, although I am not quite sure what it is. Besides from this, the form is quite different, both when it comes to the blade and to the back of the head, which is quite a bit longer. Although I don’t know much about weapons from, Turkey or the Osman Empire, I would rather think it comes from this area than from India.

[CourseEight]

I stand corrected! I only included the Oriental Arms link because it was the only tabar picture I could find. And I said Indian because of my nagan sword. Further digging found this though so you're quite correct:

http://www.oriental-arms.co.il/photos.php?id=1575

19th century, anyway!

--Radleigh

[Jens Nordlunde]

CourseEight,
Don't worry, the thing, which made me wonder was the very big back part of the axe head, and I started to have a look in some of my books, which said Turkish or Ottoman. My knowledge of these weapons is very little, so I may be corrected as well.

[jthommo]

Thanks for all comments Course 8,Battara and Jens

I will post better pictures asap

I know nothing about weapons as I obtained quite a few purely by accident and I am trying to learn something about each of them

Thanks again

Thommo