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Forum: European Armoury 26th September 2025, 08:57 PM
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Pictures from one of museum exibition cataloge...

Pictures from one of museum exibition cataloge with that dussage, there are few others, and book.
Forum: European Armoury 26th September 2025, 07:59 PM
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Posted By serdar
Thanx. No Dalmatian connection here as i know,...

Thanx.
No Dalmatian connection here as i know, but it could have been used in Dalmatia, it is fish skin and i think it is shark, same i have on some schiavona swords.
About finger you are corect it...
Forum: European Armoury 26th September 2025, 07:55 PM
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Posted By serdar
Me to, they are gorgeous, but i like this...

Me to, they are gorgeous, but i like this “ghotic” loking guard better, so in this case, im glad they arent here. 😁
Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 09:09 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 37,137
Posted By serdar
Beautiful sword, great taste! Congratulation! 😃👍🏻

Beautiful sword, great taste! Congratulation! 😃👍🏻
Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 09:04 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,444
Posted By serdar
Styrian dussage

Styrian dusaage or in Croatian Tesak, second half of 16 century, with Italyan blade of high quality, one side marked Genova with stars, other side moon with two square looking dots and two stars,...
Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 08:50 PM
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Posted By serdar
Basket hilted sword Austrian

Austrian basket hilted sword, “korben degen”? End of 16 begining of 17 century, very nicely made, blade marked iohanes mefecit and with two ancors on each side.
Acquired from very old and big...
Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 08:41 PM
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Views: 7,444
Posted By serdar
Styrian basket hilted sword and Styrian dusage

Styrian basket hilted sword, 16 century second half, with i presume italian blade marked with pi mark, very nice condition, and nice example, acquired from old collection.
Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 08:35 PM
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Views: 6,563
Posted By serdar
Ps

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Forum: European Armoury 24th September 2025, 08:33 PM
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Posted By serdar
Italian rapier

I just acquired Italian rapier 16 century, from an old collection, very nice condition, blade is marked with belunese marca de mosca in betwen is IHS writen, there is also mark on ricaso that i dont...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st September 2025, 12:25 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,188
Posted By serdar
Yes it is, very nice sword. Blade is gorgeous,...

Yes it is, very nice sword.
Blade is gorgeous, when i first saw the sword i thought it is a nimcha handle i didnt know italians made those handles, after trip thru the italy and their museums i saw...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th September 2025, 09:34 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,188
Posted By serdar
Yes, online, in museum it is positioned in that...

Yes, online, in museum it is positioned in that way that it is imppsible to take picture of the sword....

And description of the sword, translaten from Croatian.

"That sword belonged to Dragon...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th September 2025, 07:39 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,188
Posted By serdar
Thank you on answer TVV. I was puzzled the...

Thank you on answer TVV.

I was puzzled the first time i saw sword from Perast, becouse of the handle and guard, i didnt know that style of handle and guard that it originated in Italy, i thought...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th September 2025, 06:39 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 84,188
Posted By serdar
Didnt that style with half ring on a side...

Didnt that style with half ring on a side originated from italy? And from them into maroco and algeria?
Below are pictures of italian sword from the end of 14 century with councile of ten marking...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th September 2025, 08:23 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 27,793
Posted By serdar
No problem, glad to help. 😃👍🏻

No problem, glad to help. 😃👍🏻
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th September 2025, 08:22 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
Hmm, picture isnt much, but to me it looks like i...

Hmm, picture isnt much, but to me it looks like i dont know name, but bladesmith took diferent parts of steel quality and result was “damasc” looking blade, i seen it on saber blades but not on...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd September 2025, 09:16 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 25,172
Posted By serdar
It is Persian, my translator is specialised in...

It is Persian, my translator is specialised in ottoman turkey but not so much in persian, she translated fev parts but others she dont know, but knows that it is persian.

It is yatagan made in...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd September 2025, 09:01 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 27,793
Posted By serdar
Let me help you 😁 That is not bičak bichaq,...

Let me help you 😁

That is not bičak bichaq, that is a Kama in croato serbian in croatia, serbia, bosnia etc. Kama double edged dagger, it is from 19 century there are 18 century examples, made in...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd September 2025, 08:56 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
Boka and montenegro are hot very hot topic in...

Boka and montenegro are hot very hot topic in politics even today 😁 😁
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd September 2025, 08:55 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
Yes, it is a specific item that has a very tight...

Yes, it is a specific item that has a very tight and narow collectors circle but in that circle it is worth very much!
You scored very good!
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st September 2025, 07:31 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
There is no Montenegrin type of scabards end, in...

There is no Montenegrin type of scabards end, in montenegreo they used what ever they bought or in most cases captured from turks.

But there is a Kotor type end and it is in silver a rounded ball...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 08:40 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
This example with dark horn ears is from...

This example with dark horn ears is from dalmatian back lands, it has a tin pewter alloy parazvana and hašrma on which is layered thin a very thin piece of silver sheet, it is not silvered but very...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 07:51 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
About metal on the flag of the blade is bras, and...

About metal on the flag of the blade is bras, and on joint and around blade hašrma i think it is kositar or tin pewter in english some mix it is very comon on yatagans made in hercegovina region,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 06:55 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
Marks are not istanbul, those marks i encountered...

Marks are not istanbul, those marks i encountered on few swords i got and they are proto schiavonesca types. 15/16 century, one is 14 century they got identical marks.

And age i would say dnd of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st August 2025, 06:49 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 26,206
Posted By serdar
Congrats on aquiring that nice pala. My main...

Congrats on aquiring that nice pala.
My main focus in collecting are yataghan swords, especialy from balkan region, with emphasis on Dalmatian, Boka kotorska, Montenegro and Bosnia und Herzegovina...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 23rd August 2025, 11:02 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 17,200
Posted By serdar
Thank you all very much on info and help! 😃

Thank you all very much on info and help! 😃
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