Engravings on small sword - origin?

[celtan]

Thanks Richard and Jim,

That symbol always has had a certain islamic (hungarian, turkish......) feel to it, at least to me.

It sounds very logical that we incorporated and christianized that symbol, just like we once did the jihad.

Best

M

Originally Posted by Richard

Hi All,

As Jim says, the talismanic/cabbalistic symbols often appear on Solingen blades of the 18th century. They often have an eastern theme, eg Turk's head, eastern tent, etc, as "the east" symbolised magic and mysticism in those supersticious times. The arm with sword emeging from a cloud has often been interpreted as the arm/sword of Allah (depictions of the face of Allah of course being blasphemous)

Richard