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Andrew 28th February 2005 03:46 AM

What are we looking at?
 
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/viewto...?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.


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