28th October 2011, 09:23 PM
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Arms Historian
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
Posts: 10,670
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Originally Posted by stephen wood
...thank you for your interest in this one.
Did I post them upside down? I can't find a Sultan of Darfur or a King of Sennar with that name - the merchant idea is quite plausible. It does seem to be a first in that while engraved or etched inscriptions abound, I have never come across an Arabic stamp on one of these swords. Is it a tughra?
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this is a tughra
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