Early Islamic Signature

[rand]

Originally Posted by rand

Is the signature or inscription readable? Is on an early Islamic blade.

http://earlyislamicsword.blogspot.com/


rand

Have been comparing top inscription to Islamic alphabets and am wondering if its says either "Allah" or " something Allah", your help is appreciated....

rand

[Jens Nordlunde]

Hey Rand,

These are very beautiful swords, and what you show for evidence looks very interesting.

Jens

[rand]

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Hey Rand,

These are very beautiful swords, and what you show for evidence looks very interesting.

Jens

Thanks Jens,

This has been a fascinating study. Overlaying the swords on each other was an eye opener.

One thing to note is that on the raised areas of design the steel is a dark color, in a raised areas such as this you would expect to have scabbard wear polishing the raised steel areas bright. You can see how the wear has even worn away some of the raised steel decoration in places. To me this implys that some has stained the blade in recent years to bring out the pattern in the steel and did not want to risk damaging any of the gold decoration when repolishing avoiding getting close. Will contemplate this over time as it may be something to correct.

rand