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5th April 2012, 08:19 PM
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Hello Zifir may help me to
translate the inscription on my yataghan? thank you. |
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8th April 2012, 08:56 PM
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Hi Stelio,
the script on the blade is unreadable, at least for me. Am I correct to read "177_" with arabic numbers at the end? or maybe I am hallucinating from looking at it too much  . The blade maker's seal is also difficult to read, but I think it is "amel-i Muhammed /work of Muhammed." Zifir |
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9th April 2012, 08:30 AM
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Thank you very much zifir. The date in Arab calendar is 1166. They try to make most clear images on both sides of the blade
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14th April 2012, 04:14 PM
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yataghan inscription translation
Hi, everyone,
Please, help me translating the inscription of that yataghan. Hope Zifir and Dom will help me!  Reagards, Dandi |
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15th April 2012, 06:28 PM
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translation partially done  AMAL MUSTAFA ??????? AMIN either MADE BY MUSTAFA ???? AMIN SANA either DATE now, it's seems to have a digit for date, but under reserve 12 (under reserve) 73 (I think so) either ±1856 à + Dom |
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15th April 2012, 09:16 PM
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Thank you, Dom!
I appreciate your help and I am very happy that I may contact people like you. Once again thank you very much for your reply and that you paid attantion to me. According to this I agree with David R who said that damaged, incomplete, and stripped weapons are often more informative than perfect examples. I would like to show you here some of my possessions - yataghans, found in villages near my home town - one of the centers of gun craft and trade in the past. The yataghans are not luxory made, but they are made for ordinary people to use them in battles. I would like also to show you some knives made in Bulgaria in the same period named ''karakulak'' and ''akulak'' /which means black and white ear/. |
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16th April 2012, 06:59 PM
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"villages near your home town" ... may be ... you could be more explicit  because Bulgaria it's a large country  each year, or nearly, I'm crossing Bulgaria, from Serbia, to Turkey on my way to ... Cairo I have to confess that we never made a stop over in Bulgaria, the language barrier it's a brake  ... we are fluent in 3 languages; French, English and Arabic, but no one Slave language ... nobody 's perfect .. lol I learned at least something today, because, I wasn't have ideas about ''karakulak'' and ''akulak'' your collection is very attractive, and intructive concerning weapons of high origins, everybody, included myself, haven't a "Topkapi" quality my yatagans as well as yours, was with people of average extraction, don't be shy here attached, pictures for my 3 yatagans best regards à + Dom |
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15th April 2012, 09:44 PM
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This is the first yataghan.
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15th April 2012, 09:59 PM
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One more yataghan.
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15th April 2012, 10:12 PM
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Yataghans
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15th April 2012, 10:17 PM
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Yataghan from Anatolia
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15th April 2012, 10:28 PM
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Karakulaks
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15th April 2012, 10:30 PM
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Karakulak
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