kinzhal blade w/jambiya tang; Persian?

[tom hyle]

I guess the thread title about covers it. Silver inlay. Short, jambiyesque tang. ebay #6510586240

[Rick]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6510586240

[Rivkin]

Looks like an iranian or armenian kindjal blade to me. More precisely it's impossible to tell.

[Alam Shah]

The tang looks as though it was broken from a longer tang piece. Unique piece. I may be wrong though. (My 1 cent worth comment). ;)

[tom hyle]

It doesn't look that way to me; there's no jaggedness. There'es a layered look, where it looks like perhaps it's the end of a folded billet, but it's nicely rounded, not jagged, as we might expect from a torn end, nor heavily pitted, as we'd see if it'd rusted through. It is possible, of course, that it's broken off short; it just doesn't look that way to me. The tang on Arab jambiyas I've seen is much like this....

[ariel]

I am sure it is Persian: the second pic shows a koftgari-ed snake.
See:
http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=17213&highlight=snake+persian
I also think that it used to have regular tang that was filed away: see the position of the fuller.

[tom hyle]

So this snake (as also seen on the spear blade I posted about) indicated Persian?
In the absence of other evidence I think it would be extremely unsound to assume that the fuller "running off the edge" at the blade base indicates a regrind in any way, shape, or form. In fact this feature is fairly common; examine stalk-tang non-European sabres with narrow fullers; I'm particularly thinking of some saifs I've seen.

[tom hyle]

Of course, I can't see its edges very well, and the tang is covered in pitch(?), but the tang looks forged to shape.