Kindjal for comment

[ASPaulding]

Hello I recently purchased this Kindjal. I would like some thoughts on if it authentic or a tourist piece. Also if anybody may be able to date and translate the piece. Thank you for your time.

[ASPaulding]

Thank you

[Interested Party]

Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?

I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard.

[fernando]

Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?

I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard.

O.K. Let's try that aproach.

[Fernando K]

Hello
In my humble opinion, this is a tourist piece. The decoration of the sheet, etched in acid, mimics a script with oriental characters. The hilt, scabbard rim and tip appear to have been cast.

Afectionally

[ASPaulding]

Here's is pictures of the back. Thanks

[ASPaulding]

I know the langauge is arabic.

[ariel]

The scabbard has wire stitching. The blade is flat, weak, cheaply decorated. Most effort was aimed at the creation of low quality siver scabbard.
Overall, this is an Ottoman decorative/tourist kindjal-like dagger manufactured somewhere in Anatolia or Syria around 1900 +/- 10-15 years.

[francantolin]

Hello, Have you got a picture of the side of the blade ?
we could see if it's really just flat and ''all touristic''
or maybe a real blade etched and assembled and cheaply decorated for being sold to tourists...