Another Trabzon Dagger on Ebay
 

This was a sleeper :) will post better pics when it arrives.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=022

Lew

Nice snag. Showed the picture in your post to Anne and she said, "Turkish?"

Ya thief! ;)

Oh, maybe I shouldn't be casting stones. :D

Congrats on a great catch!
Steve

Hi Lew,
Well caught, if it gets lonely I have a big brother looking for lost sibling.
My Regards,
Norman.

The dagger arrived yesterday and it was cleaned up nicely but too much was done. The blade is super clean and razor sharp the horn has some minor bug damage so the last person who had it decided to coat the hilt in super glue and buffed it out to high gloss shine. No pics yet my son borrowed my only good camera and won't be back til Thursday.

Lew

OMG, I've come across that before! Superglue or some cyanoacrylate (sp?) derivative coating! It's like a 21st century idiots instant french polish.

Here is a shot of the two Trabzon daggers.


Lew

Better camera better pics :)

Always liked them, especially their intricate fullers.
Rivkin once mentioned the similarity between them and so-called "Iranian Qaddaras". Both likely hail from Southern Caucasus: Trabzonian from Georgia, Qaddaras from Azerbaijan.

Lew,

Those are really sweet! Really nice snags!


A close friend and astute African artifact collector has just moved to Azerbaijan to be the Dean of a college in Baku. Might get him to do some hunting for pieces. Any ideas about ethnographic hot spots there?