Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd September 2025, 05:00 PM
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Hi Lee,
This is from the Ottoman Plain...
Hi Lee,
This is from the Ottoman Plain Tradition, during which silver (also copper and brass) was permitted its moment. This period lasted about 50 years in the latter 18th century. I have seen...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th July 2025, 04:50 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2025, 05:03 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th June 2025, 02:35 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th May 2025, 11:13 PM
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It seems you have exhausted this thread. Your...
It seems you have exhausted this thread. Your reasoning vis a vis this illustration is nebulous. As you noted, it's Orientalist work, and not very good at that. It's clear it was done by an...
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30th April 2025, 03:18 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th April 2025, 03:12 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2025, 04:34 PM
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27th April 2025, 07:05 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th February 2025, 07:52 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th February 2025, 07:04 PM
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Well explicated, Jim.
The connection is fairly...
Well explicated, Jim.
The connection is fairly simple-- the dominant Islamic culture in that region for centuries was the Ottoman. As I discussed in On the Persian Shamshir (2001, available here:...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th February 2025, 12:44 AM
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Mark on kaskara blade
The unusual engraved mark on the kaskara blade pictured is a simplification of the Ottoman tughra. When oriented properly it is quite clear.
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29th October 2024, 04:33 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2024, 07:39 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd January 2024, 09:34 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th May 2023, 11:43 PM
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Kilic means a sword in Turkish. Pala refers to...
Kilic means a sword in Turkish. Pala refers to this particular type of sword.
This example is Persian work, mid-19th c at the earliest. The blade is almost certainly wootz, should respond easily...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2023, 09:20 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th May 2023, 06:59 PM
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16th May 2023, 06:50 PM
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16th May 2023, 06:40 PM
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15th May 2023, 11:35 PM
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20th February 2023, 11:53 PM
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15th January 2023, 04:20 PM
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The guard, at least, of the silver-mounted...
The guard, at least, of the silver-mounted schiavona shown in #13 above, can be identified as Boka Kotorska work from Crna Gora (Montenegro.) Compare the silver-inlaid motifs and technique with that...
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