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Originally Posted by VANDERNOTTE
Bonsoir a tout le monde;
Thanks everybody for the welcome. I send you the rest of the pictures of the shamshir. Imagine how I found it that it took me two weeks of work to clean it. It was found in a roof, where it sat for over 45 years. Sadly, the scabard was ruined, only the suspension rings were to clean. But all this made the blade survive.
I attach pictures of other inscription in the blade and the suspension rings. Tomorrow I'll take more pictures of the right side of the blade.
Jacques
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Salaams all ~ Focusing on the heraldic symbols I see peacocks dominating the scabbard furniture design. The Peacock; though it is the national bird of India means "divine protection" when applied in the Persian sense in respect to their inclusion on carpet designs which I feel more obvious when applied to swords! I am trying to trace the other heraldic symbols so far with no result...Any Islamic Heraldic Symbol specialists out there though they do appear to be European designs..?
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.