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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 13th September 2017, 12:10 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Viscouse~ Perhaps you can't upload the...

Salaams Viscouse~ Perhaps you can't upload the picture... Just send it and Forum will apply it...or send it to me and I will float it in...Is the sword you have related to the weapons at...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th January 2014, 04:45 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams All...I went searching for Omani Shamshir...

Salaams All...I went searching for Omani Shamshir of any description perhaps presented to visitors or whatever.. and found this peculiar double presentation of a Yatagan and a Shamshir...to the same...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th December 2013, 06:27 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams All ~Just to focus on ...The Omani...

Salaams All ~Just to focus on ...The Omani Shamshir.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 29th December 2013, 06:09 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams~ Note to Library. Another Shamshir. The...

Salaams~ Note to Library. Another Shamshir. The Sword of Henry Morton Stanley (of Livingstone Fame..) was presented to Stanley by non other than Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar in his final days. I note...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 28th December 2013, 04:04 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams.. Note to Library ... Logically (always a...

Salaams.. Note to Library ... Logically (always a dangerous word in ethnographics).. If you move around the Indian Ocean more examples of Omani Shamshir ought to be present. The reason being that...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 27th December 2013, 02:36 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams all Note to Library... More pictures..of...

Salaams all Note to Library... More pictures..of Shamshiir...plus a little sketch of the Palace at Zanzibar.... for atmosphere...

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.[QUOTE] :shrug:
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2013, 02:57 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Jim McDougall~ No conflict with Atlantia...

Salaams Jim McDougall~ No conflict with Atlantia at all... matter of fact its a great pleasure. The real work, for me, on Shamshiirs will begin once I can get into the Museums next week. I note that...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th February 2013, 06:18 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlantia ~ I will discus anything...

Salaams Atlantia ~ I will discus anything anywhere but as you point out the Kattara for comments was a bit big... thats why I've hived off the different forms (theres only 4)of Omani swords... all...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th February 2013, 05:40 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlanta... Just to remind you that you...

Salaams Atlanta... Just to remind you that you are on the Omani Shamshiir thread and better perhaps to be on the Omani Sayf thread...The Straight Omani Sayf; but to continue...well it would take some...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th February 2013, 03:31 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlantia ~ Yes well... I would hate to do...

Salaams Atlantia ~ Yes well... I would hate to do the post mortem on this one ! It could be Portuguese, German, Red Sea or as you say Omani and the pommel is certainly of the latter type. I dont...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th February 2013, 04:00 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlantia I agree indeed ... I could have...

Salaams Atlantia I agree indeed ... I could have written exactly that ! :) There appear to be only a couple of these in the entire museums weapons collections in Muscat... As I say I have only seen...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th February 2013, 03:14 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams All ~ Pictures from The Muscat Museum. I...

Salaams All ~ Pictures from The Muscat Museum. I will have a better selection later. These are so rare that anything we can obtain for records is worth having.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi....
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th February 2013, 03:07 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlantia; Well that was a tongue twister...

Salaams Atlantia; Well that was a tongue twister and I'm still trying to fathom the ins and outs of your limeric about Kattaras and Sayfs :)

I've never seen a straight Omani Sayf dancing sword...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th February 2013, 06:36 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Atlantia .. I haven't seen a fully home...

Salaams Atlantia .. I haven't seen a fully home grown (all made in Oman) Shamshiir and I doubt if one exists. The closest I think may be from the turn of the century in a small production unit in Al...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th February 2013, 09:40 AM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Ariel ~Ya Thats what I'm doing and why I...

Salaams Ariel ~Ya Thats what I'm doing and why I opened the thread. At #2 is about as close up as I've got which shows the Omani style in tooling on the leather and typical scroll work in the silver...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th February 2013, 04:06 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams Ariel. Well the point is accepted except~...

Salaams Ariel. Well the point is accepted except~ So far as I can see the blades are Persian/Hyderabadi and much of the Hilt. After that I can see hand tooled Omani leather and Omani silver/ gold ...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th February 2013, 01:54 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
Salaams All ~Turning to the history books in this...

Salaams All ~Turning to the history books in this case the Richardson and Dorr ~The Craft Herritage Project publication.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th February 2013, 01:06 PM
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Posted By Ibrahiim al Balooshi
The Omani Shamshiir.

Salaams All. Perhaps the most Iconic of all Omani Swords is the famous curved weapon often highly adorned in silver and gold thus only worn by high office and particularly by the Rulers of Oman and...
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