Persian with a later added Turkish style grip
Persian in my humble opinion. The grip is a later additon (as mentioned in the description) and made (wrongly) in a Turkish style. There is no grip strap and no holes in the pommel as one would expect to find on a Turkish shamshir. The cross guard is very Persian. Turkish shamshirs will mostly go with brass and/or silver cross guard and steel cross guards is rarely seen on Them. Also the gold decoration (which is en suite with the carrying rings) is made in a Persian style. I really think that whoever added the horn handle was replacing a damaged grips but did not really know what he was doing and mixed up styles he has seen on various swords.
When I first received this sword I was quite tempted to put the right Persian style handle, but the (wrong) handle addition is quite old and the sword was probably used by its owner after this addition, so out of "respect to its age" I decided to leave it as is.
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