PERSIAN KHANJAR

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Persian khanjar
480 mm
Similar to the Russian /Georgian khindjal,it's fairly plain although the blade is embossed on one side.the scabbard is covered in Velvet type material but is well worn,as are the decorative fittings
Previous owner purchased it from an antique dealer in Tehran, Iran around 25 years ago.

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112 VIEWS BUT NO COMMENTS??SOMEONE MAY KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS KHANJAR,CHEERS

[Kubur]

Hi Rajesh,
I looked at the book "Arms and armor from Iran" and I haven't found any similar.
However I think yours is from the very late Qajar period, early 20thies.
Can you zoom on the scabbard, inscription and hilt? Do you have Qajar coins on the rivets?
Best wishes,
Kubur

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HI KUBUR WAITING FOR IT TO ARRIVE,WILL POST SOON,KIND REGARDS,THANKS

[Battara]

I agree with Kubur. I worked on one similar to this recently (a qama actually) and it had Persian coins on it from the late Qajar period. Thus I would say this is a Qajar period piece.

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HI KUBUR AND BATTARA AM POSTING PICTURES OF THE SILVER COINS ON THE HANDLE,BUT BADLY HAMMERED SO CANT SEE MUCH.

[Oliver Pinchot]

This is a relatively late example, certainly made in the Pahlavi era, i.e. post 1925. The salient characteristics are the inelegant, abbreviated form of the blade, the poorly-cut grooves, and the inlay, accomplished by chiseling a pattern into the steel and then heating and filling it with braze and grinding it flat. Likewise, the grips are competent but lack the refinement of earlier work.
The Qajar coins used as washers can assist in establishing a date, but dating a weapon based upon the coins applied to it is problematic. First, the coins must form an integral part of the piece, as they do here-- they are not nailed or soldered on as embellishments, which is often done much later-- rather, they comprise part of the hilt construction. Second, even when they are integral, the dates coins bear can only be taken as terminus ante quem i.e., the weapon cannot date earlier than the coins, but can date anytime thereafter.

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THANKS YOU OLIVER,YOUR INFORMATION AND COMMENTS ARE VALUABLE