Indo-Afghani Weapons?

[Valjhun]

The yataghan is a montenegro/bosnia piece. Probably made in sarajevo between 1840-1870.

[The Double D]

I finally go the article in which the picutres of the knives were included. The article titled "The Rifle that built an Empire" appeared in the February 1979 Guns and Ammo Magazine. Here is the description as they gave it from upper left ot lower right.

1. Rhino hide shield from Khyber Pass. 2. Indian powder flask. 3. Persian sabre with Damascus blade. 4. African leather powder flask. 5. Matchlock gun from Northern India. 6. Afghan knife. 7. Martini Mark IV with Wilkinson sword bayonet. 8. Original packet of ,577/450 ammo. 9. Sudanese arm dagger. 10. Turkish yataghan with drop point and walrus ivory hilt. 11. Persian kard, a type of armor piercing dagger. 12. Kukri, national weapon of the Ghurkas, 13. Jambiya, the wicked Arab curved knife.

The Article is about the Martini Henry rifle and it's use in the Victorian Colonial wars. The rifle depicted, the MK IV is a bit late for those wars and fore the most part was issued to colonial troops as first line troops got the Lee Enfield.

Since they weren't very accurate withe rifle how did they do with the knives and swords?

Are these Victorian era knives and swords from the old British empire?

[Lew]

To be exact the jambiya is a Gusbi Jambiya Dagger from Hadramout in Yemen.


Lew