Ottoman Turkish 1909 pattern officers' sword

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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Now THAT is interesting!!!
Where are these identified by this classification?
Records on Ottoman military arms of these times are pretty esoteric.

Actually, it is not that esoteric at all. There is a recent book in Russian called "Холодное оружие Османской империи и Албании" by Branko Bogdanovich which deals with this topic. Forum rules would not allow posting a link to the publisher, but if you simply copy and paste the title in Google, you should be able to find the web site easily.

The same publisher has a series of books on edged weapons military patterns for all Balkan countries, but these are topics that fall outside of my interests and the scope of this forum.

Sincerely,
Teodor