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29th April 2016, 03:21 PM | #1 |
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Khandjarli
Here my latest buy: A simple Khandjarli with its scabbard. I'd like to know if anybody would be able to tell me how old this piece might be.
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30th April 2016, 03:10 PM | #2 |
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I cannot say for sure how old it is but I would estimate 19th century blade and bone hilt.
Blade can be earlier... but it is hard to say from the photos. Did you check it for Wootz? PS: And I am by no means a specialist! |
1st May 2016, 07:19 AM | #3 |
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The "iron sickness" surrounding the pins in the scales indicates a decent age. That amount of oxidation doesn't happen overnight. They have been in place for some time.
I, too, am not a specialist. |
1st May 2016, 06:35 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for your comments. I have copared my item with fotos of other khandjarlis in auction catalogues and the net and I think that this piece is very old and not made during the 19. century. After what I have seen it may be from the early 17th century but as I am no specialist this is just a supposition..............
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2nd May 2016, 03:27 AM | #5 |
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I am wondering what's up with the adjacent 8 spoked star marks on either side of the base of the blade. Goto say though, That thing as a beautiful rustic look to it. Looks very solid as well. Dat der is perty knife.
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2nd May 2016, 09:50 PM | #6 |
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I'd place it in the 18th century. The grips are antler, not bone.
Nice example, shows all the characteristic grace of the type. |
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