Gav, very nice indeed! Pleasure to look at. Thank you.
As for questions, I'd call it a shamshir, not Kilij. Yes, there is "rudimentary" yelman present, but it's a variety or feature of shamshir blade, not to make it a Kilij type. Also, does the hilt show fibrous structure? based on the pictures it's hard to tell rhino or not, the colour is too light and uniform (I could be totally wrong of course)
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