Serbian (?) Yataghan id help and cleaning
 

Here is a recent yataghan I bought. It has a Cyrillic inscription and the date 1853 on it. Any help with the translation would be appreciated. The question I have is how to clean the scabbard. The metal seems to be an alloy. I gently cleaned a part of it and it seems to become slightly less silver and copper color seems to appear. I am not sure that the silver color is being stripped and it is not the tarnish that has changed color. Any thoughts?[IMG]http://[/IMG]

Not my area of collecting but regarding the silver at the scabbard it could be the it is thin silver plated so agressive cleaning will remove the silver. But frankly said I don't know how to clean it without removing the silver, sorry. :shrug:

Regards,
Detlef

There are on the market that works very well for cleaning silver jewelry, we pass with a cloth, or with a toothbrush the product and it rinses the water after it dries and is wax top