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13th July 2016, 02:00 AM
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Getting closer...
A quite similar sword got sold by Czerny's for a total of approx. US$2450 earlier this year:
http://www.czernys.com/auctions_lot....ta=57&lang=eng Note the hilt again displays the parrot motif as well as silver koftgari! Longer with a total length of 76.5 cm. Again no scabbard surviving. From the pics, I can't make out wether the blade is made of wootz - my piece certainly is (of rather low contrast though). Any comments/updates by forumites specialising on India? Any additional pieces surfacing? One more example and we have a rare pattern/type emerging...  Regards, Kai |
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13th July 2016, 02:54 AM
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Folks,
I have a sneaky suspicion that all of those belong to the same pattern as the ones discussed in the next -literally!- thread: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21429 |
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13th July 2016, 08:24 AM
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I thought I had been dreaming Ariel;.. Please follow up on what you point out... Surely this is the same family? In my view and as you already point out on the other thread these could fuse as one thread... |
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13th July 2016, 08:46 AM
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I note Czernys call it a rare sabre...I sympathize with their inability to find the exact name...It is so similar to the design of Pesh Kabz...and in fact also on some Persian Kard... In particular the throat design...and so similar to the Yatagan... (I note vague similarities to the decorative throat on Pihae Keata but only faintly similar...) Again I urge fusing the two threads noted earlier.
Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 13th July 2016 at 09:17 AM. |
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13th July 2016, 10:20 AM
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Have no idea what it is, nor where exactly does it come from but if it is wootz, it definitely is antique!
Moreover, Indian blades display probably the widest array of shapes of all blades and I'm not surprised this shape to be one of them as the Indians seem to fancy recurved blades a lot (as seen in Khnajar, Khanjarli, Pesh-kabz, Bichwa, Soussun Pata, etc.). So wootz and recurved blade, typical Indian guard, clearly point India to me. Where exactly in India?! Well... that's a completely different story. Good luck with it!
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13th July 2016, 11:33 AM
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the hilt reminds me of mine: appears to have a trade blade & was discussed on this forum as possibly so. indian tho nrth was also mentioned. this thread opens more possibilities.
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14th July 2016, 10:53 AM
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The weapon you show is clearly the same style...same family as that being discussed...
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13th July 2016, 08:20 AM
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Not an expert but as far as I know Indians often copied good blades from other nations, for example the Kilij and Shamshir. I think, this could be an Indian interpretation of a Yatagan.
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