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Join Date: May 2017
Location: France
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Hello everyone,
so for my first post I will combine my presentation and share with you my last find ![]() To begin, I'm Clement (21 y.o.). I live in France and I'm passionate by middle east and north african blades, with a weak for flissa... and yes not common you will say !!! ![]() To continue this post, I present you now my last find. A really nice made flissa, this is the first one of this "type" I see. Not sure that's really old but surely end XIX century. Maybe use by a notable man ? Really plot by this little metallic ribbon with stars ! Every comment are welcome and expected ! Hope you will like. Friendly Clement Last edited by Robert; 18th May 2017 at 07:57 PM. |
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Damn, an other new French guy in my age group, seems like we're invading this forum !
![]() ![]() Really nice flissa too, I don't know much about them but I've never seen one like this, it's almost always either the old straight ones or the really curved recent ones with an "S" shaped cross guard, this one almost looks like an intermediate form between those two. Really nice hilt and scabbard too ! |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Welcome to our little forum!
This is a nice piece. Not seen flyssa blade with a nimcha hilt of this quality before! I would say it is from Morocco (or Algeria). Looks like the scabbard tip is missing, but all in all I am impressed. Congratulations! |
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I do not believe the scabbard tip is missing, only that it cannot be seen very well. I have tried to modify one of the photo's to make it easier to see the tip, but this unfortunately is the best that I could do.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Clement, welcome to our forum, and you have given us a keen opportunity to see one of the nicest examples of the 'wedding nimcha' I have yet seen!
The term for these is most misleading, as these were actually 'ceremonial' or dress accoutrements, not simply for weddings or such events. It is unusual to see one of these 'nimcha' style hilts with a flyssa blade, and I think you are right in that this one probably dates in the latter 19th c. The quality of the mounts and blade are remarkable. The flyssa itself is the sword of Kabylia in these regions in Algeria (said to have been named for the Iflyssen tribe Berbers who are believed to have been early makers of these). These long, needle pointed blade swords pretty much dropped off in production toward the later years of the 19th c. and these smaller dagger type examples perhaps became worn much as the koummya it seems as there was a great deal of diffusion in the Maghrebi coastal areas. Stone (1935, p.234) describes the flyssa as the sword of the Kabyles of Morocco. It is believed that this attribution, when Kabylia is actually in Algeria, has to do with the connection with the Malakite Rite of Islam I Morocco. The five point star (Star of Solomon) which represents the Five Pillars of Islam is interestingly represented in the mounts of this dagger. That Star is since 1915 seen on the red flag of Morocco. Therefore, a dagger of quality in Maghrebi nimcha mounts and Moroccan influenced Star of Solomon motif with Algerian Kabyle blade. Last edited by Jim McDougall; 19th May 2017 at 05:30 AM. |
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Good morning,
thank's for your comments, I appreciate your help ! Happy to see that's you like this nimcha, this was a pleasure to present this one. I join more picts of the scabbard tip. |
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This is a master piece really!
Its Ottoman and from ALGERIA. I will give you all the details later. It's a very very nice piece. Best, Kubur |
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