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Originally Posted by Lee
To state the obvious, just in case it isn't:
Persian blades marked with the cartouches of those celebrated smiths are commonly also found in Mughal Indian and Ottoman mounts.
There is about a three hundred year span when so-marked blades were actually made and the vast majority could not have been made within any single working human craftsman's lifetime.
Serdar, this sounds more than a little like the situation with the +ULFBERHT+ markings on early European blades. Thank you for the insight.
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Sorry I should have specified, I know actual persian blades were used by ottomans, but I was specifically wondering if ottomans for example forged their own blades and imitated the asadullah mark on them- this is a purported example from an old auction, but I cannot read the cartouche to confirm
28th June 2025, 04:09 AM
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