Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Are Asadollah cartouches/signatures found on Ottoman blades? Or only Persian blades?

Lee · 27th June 2025, 02:10 PM

To state the obvious, just in case it isn't:

Persian blades marked with the cartouches of those celebrated smiths are commonly also found in Mughal Indian and Ottoman mounts.

There is about a three hundred year span when so-marked blades were actually made and the vast majority could not have been made within any single working human craftsman's lifetime.

Serdar, this sounds more than a little like the situation with the +ULFBERHT+ markings on early European blades. Thank you for the insight.

27th June 2025, 02:10 PM	#3
Lee EAAF Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Upstate New York, USA Posts: 938	To state the obvious, just in case it isn't: Persian blades marked with the cartouches of those celebrated smiths are commonly also found in Mughal Indian and Ottoman mounts. There is about a three hundred year span when so-marked blades were actually made and the vast majority could not have been made within any single working human craftsman's lifetime. Serdar, this sounds more than a little like the situation with the +ULFBERHT+ markings on early European blades. Thank you for the insight.