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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
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Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?
I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard. Last edited by Interested Party; 30th March 2022 at 02:32 PM. Reason: Hmmm |
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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 |
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Here's is pictures of the back. Thanks
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I know the langauge is arabic.
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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. |
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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... |
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