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Old 3rd April 2014, 04:35 PM   #1
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Default yatagan for id please

can you give me the origin of the yatagan

It measures 70cm long, the blade 5cm heel, very thick in the heel, t blade...
mother-of-Pearl and brass inlays. and a marking on the blade
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Old 4th April 2014, 12:58 AM   #2
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Ooh, very interesting piece, the blade has very graceful lines!

The mother-of-pearl looks like a modern addition to the large brass rivets. The style recalls North/Eastern Anatolian and Central Asian types. The integral bolster and thinning tang is very very interesting.

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Old 15th April 2014, 01:36 PM   #3
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I'll bump this, in case someone else has some thoughts to share on this piece.
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Old 16th April 2014, 12:35 AM   #4
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Very interesting, very original, very unusual...and probably either not Turkish and/or recently made. It's not just the hilt,shape of the blade itself is also very unusual, and have some subtle differences from the usual form of a yatağan(even so that yatağan form itself varied radically)

It is very beautiful, yet puzzling.
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I was hoping you'd chime in on this, Sancar. I was looking through your thread on contemporary Turkish bladesmiths to see if something similar came up.
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Old 18th April 2014, 07:54 PM   #6
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Hi,
i think that this yatagan comes from Trebizold area(Pontos) in the black sea. I would say that it is of late 19th or early 20th century . It seems christian.
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Old 21st April 2014, 11:23 AM   #7
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This is not a Black Sea yatağan, or a recently made more Turkish reproduction. The rivet and inlay decoration reminds me of Central Asian knives. Shape of ears and hilt is similar to Caucasian region wooden hilted shashkas. So I think this might be a rehilted Khyber knife or a modern "yatağan" made by an Afgani or Northen Uzbek bladesmith who usually make Khyber knife type blades.
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