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

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.

I'll bump this, in case someone else has some thoughts to share on this piece.

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.

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.

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.

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.