Kindjal for comment
 

Hello I recently purchased this Kindjal. I would like some thoughts on if it authentic or a tourist piece. Also if anybody may be able to date and translate the piece. Thank you for your time.

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Thank you

Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?

I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard.

O.K. Let's try that aproach.

Hello
In my humble opinion, this is a tourist piece. The decoration of the sheet, etched in acid, mimics a script with oriental characters. The hilt, scabbard rim and tip appear to have been cast.

Afectionally

Here's is pictures of the back. Thanks

I know the langauge is arabic.

The scabbard has wire stitching. The blade is flat, weak, cheaply decorated. Most effort was aimed at the creation of low quality siver scabbard.
Overall, this is an Ottoman decorative/tourist kindjal-like dagger manufactured somewhere in Anatolia or Syria around 1900 +/- 10-15 years.

Hello, Have you got a picture of the side of the blade ?
we could see if it's really just flat and ''all touristic''
or maybe a real blade etched and assembled and cheaply decorated for being sold to tourists...