Help with a quaddara please
 

This quaddara has a 25 inch blade. The leather of the scabbard is new, but the silver collar at the scabbard throat appears original. There is a stylized lion and sunburst, consistent with the attribution to Persia.

My questions are:
Is the script under the lion Arabic or Persian?
What does it say?
Can anyone identify the maker’s marks on the blade?
Can anyone guess the age by the coins (or other features)?

Marcus

These Iranian coins can be researched for example at https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldcurrency/3823226210 and http://www.anythinganywhere.com/comm...npics/iran.htm :shrug:

Some of the coins may be Persian, but on the face of the hilt they are Russian. Identifying them does not really help determine the age of the piece conclusively: all you can get is a limit on how old the piece could be, i.e. made as of the date of the latest used coin or later.

TVV oops... you are right see https://www.google.com/search?q=OLD+...Um8ZI6CxXaM%3A

stamp
 

The mark appears to be the same as that on the right most sword in plate 206 (page 295) of Rivkin's book, although I did not see an explanation. The writing on the scabbard collar does appear to be Arabic but the only word my Iraqi friend could be sure of was "Allah".

The lion motif with the sword, with the sun in the background on the scabbard is definitely Persian.

Yes, the scabbard is Persian and also half of the coins.
The blade can be from Caucasus (as the other coins suggest). The whole sword is a late Qajar short short as you wrote a qaddara.

Coins
 

Here are pictures of coins like those used to dress the rivets. On the topside there are two 20 Kopek coins and one 15 kopek coin. Of course I do not know the dates of the coins on the sword but the basic design was used from about 1860 to 1917. On the back are Iranian 500 dinar coins. I think they are from the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, (September 1848 to May 1896). His successor was Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and I show one picture of a 2000 dinar coin from his reign to compare the Persian script with the 500 dinar coin (enlarged). The differences are rather subtle.
It took a while to find the right 500 dinar coin and the one shown was advertised on eBay as having “normal wear”. In fact, what I received was not a coin as much as it was a button! Someone had soldered a loop on the backside!