Gold hilted yataghan

erlikhan · 14th December 2004, 11:44 PM

Eftihis, the one in your picture is very interesting. Like half breed of different animals. But i guess its long cross guard should interfere with ropes too, if there was such a problem in ships. The scabbard of my sample has definite traces of some mounting which has gone long time ago. Now only leather left. Then perhaps mine once had mountings with ship engraving too.
Is that museum in Crete? Do they have ancient Greek bronze and iron swords? If so can you post their pictures or if you can't do that, at least describe what they are like?

eftihis · 15th December 2004, 12:38 AM

These are photos from a "nautical" yataghan which is from Crete.
You can see the ship design on the scabbard.
I dont have photos from ancient Greek swords. The previous one is from Greek war museum in Athens.

erlikhan · 15th December 2004, 11:49 PM

Amazing. Had you seen my naval yataghan's pictures in the previous forum?
http://www.pbase.com/erlikhan/yataghan . Yours is too similar in all aspects.
It was told to me as being officialy ordered to workshops and manufactured to present to the highest rank naval officers. It is highest grade silver, and it had to be so, to be able to create the magnificent work without tearing the silver sheet. And it doesn't have any tughra. Market productions which were produced for civilian customers were stamped with "tughra" sign, which was mint stamped officialy just to approve the degree of the silver after testing them. That was the way to convince customers and gain their trust. Official orders never carry "tughra", as the government didn't need to convince its officers or ministers that they were not cheated by the government itself normally.

15th December 2004, 12:38 AM	#2
eftihis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Chania Crete Greece Posts: 511	Silver Nautical yataghan from Crete These are photos from a "nautical" yataghan which is from Crete. You can see the ship design on the scabbard. I dont have photos from ancient Greek swords. The previous one is from Greek war museum in Athens. Attached Images

14th December 2004, 11:44 PM	#1
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	Eftihis, the one in your picture is very interesting. Like half breed of different animals. But i guess its long cross guard should interfere with ropes too, if there was such a problem in ships. The scabbard of my sample has definite traces of some mounting which has gone long time ago. Now only leather left. Then perhaps mine once had mountings with ship engraving too. Is that museum in Crete? Do they have ancient Greek bronze and iron swords? If so can you post their pictures or if you can't do that, at least describe what they are like?

15th December 2004, 11:49 PM	#3
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	Amazing. Had you seen my naval yataghan's pictures in the previous forum? http://www.pbase.com/erlikhan/yataghan . Yours is too similar in all aspects. It was told to me as being officialy ordered to workshops and manufactured to present to the highest rank naval officers. It is highest grade silver, and it had to be so, to be able to create the magnificent work without tearing the silver sheet. And it doesn't have any tughra. Market productions which were produced for civilian customers were stamped with "tughra" sign, which was mint stamped officialy just to approve the degree of the silver after testing them. That was the way to convince customers and gain their trust. Official orders never carry "tughra", as the government didn't need to convince its officers or ministers that they were not cheated by the government itself normally.