Pirate sword-cutlass

[francantolin]

Hello,

Thank you all for your precious comments and pictures !!

I found this picture of a janissary soldier going to the Preveza battle with a look-like sword.
The ottoman sea chief was Kheir-Eddine Barberousse,
here an old 19th orientalist drawing of him with the same sword shape
( dont' really look like Barberousse but that's the name of the old stamp )


Looking for old painting and engravings about janissaries,
I was surprised to see no more armed with yatagan swords,
( yatagans were present since the 16th century I read )

At the same time, it's so difficult / impossible to find old ottoman scimitar swords that are not kilij .

All lost-damaged ?
Or more an orientalist fantasy-representation of the 19th century painters as told before ?...

Kind regards