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Andrew
28th February 2005, 03:46 AM
A beautiful wootz shamshir (?), courtesy of Lion's Gate:

http://www.antiqueswords.com/iss6.htm

Can anyone tell us something about this one? Lee O'Hagan recently posted it in an ongoing thread on Islamic swords over on myArmoury.com

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?p=34400#34400
Andrew
28th February 2005, 11:18 PM
Nothing? Nada? Nyet?
Conogre
1st March 2005, 01:13 AM
In my dealings with Rob, he's been pretty spot on most of the time.
Mike
Andrew
1st March 2005, 03:26 AM
Mike, I'm not questioning the accuracy of Rob's description. Rather, I was hoping for some additional information.

To my inexperienced eye, the handle looks like Qajar revival, and the multiple fullers remind me of those often seen on Chinese dao.