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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 11th May 2020, 09:09 PM
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Views: 68,381
Posted By kwiatek
As the place of manufacture. I will have to dig...

As the place of manufacture. I will have to dig them up from my photo archive and ask the owners' permission, though I think they will probably be published shortly anyway.

By non-imperial, I...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th May 2020, 10:07 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 68,381
Posted By kwiatek
Interesting. The only place names I've ever seen...

Interesting. The only place names I've ever seen on any non-imperial yataghan is 'Rahova', which was the Ottoman Turkish name for Orjahovo which is on the Danube. At first of all I assumed this was a...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th May 2020, 09:35 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 13,557
Posted By kwiatek
Sorry for absence. It has been a strange time ......

Sorry for absence. It has been a strange time ...

It says, in Arabic:

هدیة من سلطان سليمان الى جوهر اغا

'Gift from Sultan Sulayman (Süleyman) to Jawhar Agha (Cevher Ağa)'

I don't think we...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 8th May 2020, 09:23 PM
Replies: 79
Views: 227,823
Posted By kwiatek
The maker's name in the mark is 'Mustafa'

The maker's name in the mark is 'Mustafa'
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 14th April 2020, 10:31 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 25,704
Posted By kwiatek
The one with the dark handle has a Turkish poetic...

The one with the dark handle has a Turkish poetic inscription I've only ever seen on yataghans. Interesting piece
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 14th April 2020, 10:30 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 25,704
Posted By kwiatek
Again, it is possible to make suggestions for...

Again, it is possible to make suggestions for individual words, but I do not think the inscription as a whole reads or that the person who made it knew what they were inscribing/copying. The date of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 14th April 2020, 10:27 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 11,531
Posted By kwiatek
Sorry for delay, the inscriptions don't read...

Sorry for delay, the inscriptions don't read properly. It's possible to give suggestions for certain words, such as عز ('Glory') and اقبال ('Fortune'), but on the whole these words belong to an...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th March 2020, 01:17 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 33,151
Posted By kwiatek
It does not really look like a 1 or a 2, but it...

It does not really look like a 1 or a 2, but it must be surely meant to be one or the other. I would go with whatever stylistically fits the piece best, but I can see already that that is...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th March 2020, 06:27 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 33,151
Posted By kwiatek
I thought of something but then realised it could...

I thought of something but then realised it could not be the case. Cannot delete the post completely
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th March 2020, 12:03 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 33,151
Posted By kwiatek
I think it can only be [1]295 even if it doesn’t...

I think it can only be [1]295 even if it doesn’t look like a 2

The upper cartouche reads

عمل دمشق الشام صاحبه عثمان بيك

"Work of Damascus, Syria. It’s owner is Osman Bey.”

The lower one...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 6th March 2020, 10:01 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 13,196
Posted By kwiatek
You are very welcome. Abjad chronograms are not...

You are very welcome. Abjad chronograms are not that uncommon, though they don’t always add up correctly! This was a relatively straightforward one. A Central Asian qalamdan is certainly very unusual
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st March 2020, 09:07 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,194
Posted By kwiatek
A pleasure. It’s a very interesting and unusual...

A pleasure. It’s a very interesting and unusual inscription. It’s not impossible an educated Turk would have understood this sophisticated kind of Arabic, but I would have thought it pointed to an...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 29th February 2020, 09:48 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,194
Posted By kwiatek
Yes some of them are posted upside down :-) ...

Yes some of them are posted upside down :-)

In the quatrefoil cartouche is the ubiquitous:

لا فتی الا علي لا سيف الا ذو الفقار

“There is no hero but ‘Ali, no sword but Dhu’l-Fiqar”

In the...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 29th February 2020, 09:06 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 13,196
Posted By kwiatek
This is how I understand the Persian verses ...

This is how I understand the Persian verses

این قلمدان عالی بی اشباه
مر جوانان خوب را دلجو
ساکن اسفرنگ صحافش
گر بپرسی منزل او
سال تاریخ او ز روی کرم
...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th February 2020, 09:26 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,194
Posted By kwiatek
Very interesting inscriptions, including verses...

Very interesting inscriptions, including verses from a poem of the 'Abbasid poet al-Mutanabbi about a sword. Will give you readings when I have a moment
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2020, 10:22 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 31,330
Posted By kwiatek
Yes, correct. That’s a question of pronunciation...

Yes, correct. That’s a question of pronunciation not spelling though. There is an actual spelling mistake in the way Shahrikhon/Shahrikhan is spelt on the blade - it’s spelt wrong kind of letter h....
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2020, 09:55 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 9,583
Posted By kwiatek
These are Turkish verses of the type typically...

These are Turkish verses of the type typically found on yataghans. It is just that they are so crudely inscribed it is hard to read/identify them. It is fairly clear what one of them is, but the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2020, 09:53 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 31,330
Posted By kwiatek
Yes it says Shahr-i Khan (Shahrikhon in modern...

Yes it says Shahr-i Khan (Shahrikhon in modern Uzbek). It is spelt correctly on the scabbard and incorrectly on the blade. Again, that kind of mistake might indicate it was made relatively recently....
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 16th February 2020, 12:19 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 17,172
Posted By kwiatek
I don’t think the poems can tell you whether it...

I don’t think the poems can tell you whether it was made in Anatolia or the Balkans. Turkish poetry would have been read and understood by officers and dignitaries all over the Balkans, Aegean and...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th February 2020, 07:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,486
Posted By kwiatek
It reads: عمل محمود صاحب محمد آغا سنه ١٢٧٥؟ ...

It reads:

عمل محمود صاحب محمد آغا سنه ١٢٧٥؟

“Work of Mahmud. Owner, Mehmed Agha. Year 1275 (1858-9?)”

I put a question mark after the date because it is worn and not clear.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th February 2020, 07:13 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 17,172
Posted By kwiatek
Certainly from the Ottoman Empire. You’re...

Certainly from the Ottoman Empire.

You’re very welcome. Is nice to see an inscription of this kind I haven’t seen before. Thanks for posting
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th February 2020, 07:00 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 17,172
Posted By kwiatek
Normally the same Turkish poems come up again and...

Normally the same Turkish poems come up again and again, but this is one I’ve never seen before as an inscription. I read it as:

بر اهلی [کذا] کامل اوسته قولی قربانی اول
خار ایچنده بتان غنچه گوله...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 11th February 2020, 10:18 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 31,330
Posted By kwiatek
The inscription, judging by the mistakes and the...

The inscription, judging by the mistakes and the hand, was done somewhere where the Arabic/Persian/Urdu alphabet is not in use anymore. I would not have thought it was done in India or Pakistan,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th January 2020, 07:01 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 38,294
Posted By kwiatek
I should add, I found it online as a verse...

I should add, I found it online as a verse attributed to the poet Lotfi Shirazi, who was active in the reign of Shah 'Abbas
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th January 2020, 06:54 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 38,294
Posted By kwiatek
This is in Persian, but the calligraphy looks...

This is in Persian, but the calligraphy looks more typical of Ottoman metalwork:

بکش خنجر که جان بهر تو [ا]ی نامهربان دارم

'Draw the dagger, since my life is at your disposal, O unkind one!'
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