Yatagan Beauty from Balkan, help needed

Roland_M · 9th December 2015, 09:36 PM

Hi,

When dreams become true, here is my dream Yatagan

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A Yatagan which was a present to an Austrian k&k-Officer, he served in Bosnia around 1900.

One side has an inscription, I hope, someone can translate the text. Thank you in advance. I found out, that the text starts with a number, probably a year, 1229 which equals 1814. The blade itself is older than the inscription, because on the other side are remains of a Koftgari and decoration in the middle of the blade (picture 8 & 9).

The steel is flawless and high quality. The steel below the silver inscription looks like very fine wootz, which turns slowly into pattern welded steel. I never saw such a type of steel before. It was a big surprise, to see this pattern after the treatment “What,

How did he make this?” (this is no chevron blade), picture 4.

The back of the blade is decorated with hundreds of tiny drillings, which forming a sinuous line (pic 10).

The blade is twisted around 10 degree to the handle and my first impression was “omg, what a disastrous restoration”. But a few days later I found out, with the hand in the right position this unusual shape is very ergonomic. The heel of the hand must simply be located between the ears.

This is one of the few blades in my collection, which I define as my personal legendary blades, so I hope for benevolent comments and it would be very useful to see some other Yatagan blades.

Special Greetings to Detlef, your Solor Sword Stick is definitely my next job and finished before Christmas.

Thanks for reading and best wishes for everybody,
Roland

9th December 2015, 09:36 PM	#1
Roland_M Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Germany Posts: 523	Yatagan Beauty from Balkan, help needed Hi, When dreams become true, here is my dream Yatagan  A Yatagan which was a present to an Austrian k&k-Officer, he served in Bosnia around 1900. One side has an inscription, I hope, someone can translate the text. Thank you in advance. I found out, that the text starts with a number, probably a year, 1229 which equals 1814. The blade itself is older than the inscription, because on the other side are remains of a Koftgari and decoration in the middle of the blade (picture 8 & 9). The steel is flawless and high quality. The steel below the silver inscription looks like very fine wootz, which turns slowly into pattern welded steel. I never saw such a type of steel before. It was a big surprise, to see this pattern after the treatment “What, How did he make this?” (this is no chevron blade), picture 4. The back of the blade is decorated with hundreds of tiny drillings, which forming a sinuous line (pic 10). The blade is twisted around 10 degree to the handle and my first impression was “omg, what a disastrous restoration”. But a few days later I found out, with the hand in the right position this unusual shape is very ergonomic. The heel of the hand must simply be located between the ears. This is one of the few blades in my collection, which I define as my personal legendary blades, so I hope for benevolent comments and it would be very useful to see some other Yatagan blades. Special Greetings to Detlef, your Solor Sword Stick is definitely my next job and finished before Christmas. Thanks for reading and best wishes for everybody, Roland Attached Images