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digenis · 30th March 2014, 06:29 AM

Here is a recent yataghan I bought. It has a Cyrillic inscription and the date 1853 on it. Any help with the translation would be appreciated. The question I have is how to clean the scabbard. The metal seems to be an alloy. I gently cleaned a part of it and it seems to become slightly less silver and copper color seems to appear. I am not sure that the silver color is being stripped and it is not the tarnish that has changed color. Any thoughts?[IMG]http://[/IMG]

30th March 2014, 06:29 AM	#1
digenis Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 48	Serbian (?) Yataghan id help and cleaning Here is a recent yataghan I bought. It has a Cyrillic inscription and the date 1853 on it. Any help with the translation would be appreciated. The question I have is how to clean the scabbard. The metal seems to be an alloy. I gently cleaned a part of it and it seems to become slightly less silver and copper color seems to appear. I am not sure that the silver color is being stripped and it is not the tarnish that has changed color. Any thoughts?[IMG]http://[/IMG] Attached Images