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![]() It might be 'Mir 'Ali', though it is written very strangely, as you point out |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The Turkish inscription says: Ustası Giridli Selim [1]322 “Its maker, Selim from Crete. [1]322 (1904-5 AD)“ |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thank you for sharing photos and to all of you for your knowledge. That is what is nice about forums like this one |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() This inscription looks genuine to me. Other members of the forum will be able to give technical information that I cannot about the lock etc and whether all of the parts belong together. If it's... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The inscription is of a type associated with the Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Nizam 'Ali Khan Asaf Jah II (d. 1803). I have only ever seen these on Char Aina, but yours is the same style of inscription.... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The inscription on the barrel says ستة ٢٨٢ “Year (1)282” which is equivalent to 1865-6 The other inscription is more tricky. I think it... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Very interesting piece. I don’t think it’s a date. It looks like, with a slightly strange spelling الحافظا الله “The Protector is... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thanks for posting these. Interesting pieces. I would read them as you have done and give a reading for one of the names: 1334 AH (1915-16) Work of Lutf (Latif?), owner ‘Ali Muhammad Vali Oghli... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I think I answered this before but perhaps it wasn’t clear. This isn’t a royal tughra, it’s an owner’s inscription in tughra form, which is quite common صاحب... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I may be barking up the wrong tree, but is that not a very small trisula in the point of the cartouche? I wonder if this is not a hybrid stamp made by a Hindu artisan/for a Hindu patron but inspired... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I think this contains a form of the ubiquitous legend banda-yi shah-i vilayat ... 'Slave of the King of Trusteeship (i.e. 'Ali)', found in association with the name of one of the Safavid... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() سنه sana “Year” I seem to remember that there are loads of these daggers in Bern in the Historisches Museum. There might be one with the same design - I would check the catalogue... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I think you are probably right. I agree it looks 19th-century and that 125(0) would fit better. Also, normally only one digit is normally missed out in a date. Though Persians never wrote 5 this... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I would suggest the date rather as سنه (٠٠)١٢ "Year 12(00)” 1200=1785-6 What people have read as two zeros/fives are part of the decoration/flowers. A... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() This is a couplet in Urdu from a Marsiya (a Shi’ite elegiac poem on the martyrs of Karbala) by the famous Urdu poet Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabir شمشیر... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() You are welcome, thanks for sharing your knife with us. Actually, since it is Turkish you should probably transliterate it as amel-i hüseyin “Work of Hüseyin” |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I am familiar with calculating Abjad but if you are referring to the sword you posted a link to, I doubt very much it is an abjad chronogram. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Yes I had realized it was upside down. I would be amazed if it was Bosnian, but I am prepared to be amazed if anyone can come up with a reading. Could be talismanic, but you should still be able to... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Well, they are where you would expect the date to be on an inscription of this type and they could be conceivably be 2**7, but the middle digits do not resemble anything much and even if they did,... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Where in India do you think this is from? Might help with the inscription |
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![]() Neither the words nor the numbers make any sense to me in either Arabic, Persian or Turkish |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() To the right of the tughra عمل صالح “Work of Salih” The tughra itself is an owner’s inscription, probably صاحب... |
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