Are Asadollah cartouches/signatures found on Ottoman blades? Or only Persian blades?

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Sakalord364

Thanks for the clarification, I’ve seen it mentioned by collectors that Ottomans and Indians imitated asadullah cartouches on blades they forged themselves, should this be discounted as fiction? I know at least Afghans imitated these marking on Afghan blades, but I was wondering if this was also practiced among Ottomans and Indians.

Would be interested to know of examples or references showing Afghan blades with spurious examples of the pictograph lion or signature of Assad Allah.
Also, the Ottoman and Indian examples with these blades, are there references saying these blades were made by swordsmiths in those regions? The only examples I have seen are locally hilted in their styles mounted with trade blades of the familiar pictograph type.