[QUOTE=Jim McDougall;297386][QUOTE=Pertinax;297381]
Thank you for adding this Yuri, excellent and most salient comparison.
Here I will note that these obviously spurious markings on a European blade imported into the centers in the Maghreb, and ambitiously applied by a native trader, less than skillfully are understandably so. . What is important here is that native armorers often applied copies of European markings for their perceived 'magic' and the quality artistically was less important than the presence of the mark itself. On the blades of Eastern European sabers the markings are typically more well executed and follow certain conventions in application.
Jim, as I already wrote, I am not 100% sure that the blade on the nimche is European.
I have a version that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there could have been manufactures like Solingen and Klingenthal in the Maghreb countries. But I have no documentary evidence for this version.
A colleague from the Russian forum expressed the opinion that blades of Maghreb origin had two characteristic features (although imported European ones also began to be made in this style) - a thin dolik above the main wide dolik and a rounded tip.
So questions remain, nothing can be said with certainty.
Respectfully,
Yuri
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