An indian shamshir with a persian blade

[Drabant1701]

Originally Posted by kai

Sounds like a quality blade!

Can someone comment on the quite rough inlay done for the cartouche?

Regards,
Kai

I dont really see the roughness, the picture is an extreme closeup if you hold the sword and look at it the cartouche appers to be made of solid lines. The style with the cartouche being made of smaller cut rather then solid lines seem rather common on persian blades from this time period.
I looked through Arms and Armor from iran looking at similar cartouches, and i my opinion this one is very well excecuted with the cuts being the same size and the with good symetry.