Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Shamshir help needed Blade cartouche translation

ariel · 3rd July 2008, 04:41 PM

The blade, with its single, wide, upper-part located fuller looks European military to me.
Signatures of KalbAli are not as frequent as his alleged father's ( Assad Ullah) simply because there was less money in faking KalbAli's moniker. Adding a signature, cartouch or "beduh" onto a European or trade blade was a venerable practice all over the Middle East.
I kinda think it is not very old ( OK , older than John McCain or yours truly!), but not older than late 19th century.

3rd July 2008, 04:41 PM	#3
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	The blade, with its single, wide, upper-part located fuller looks European military to me. Signatures of KalbAli are not as frequent as his alleged father's ( Assad Ullah) simply because there was less money in faking KalbAli's moniker. Adding a signature, cartouch or "beduh" onto a European or trade blade was a venerable practice all over the Middle East. I kinda think it is not very old ( OK , older than John McCain or yours truly!), but not older than late 19th century.