Need id and translation for a big blunderbuss.

[Cerjak]

Need id and translation for a big blunderbuss.
Hi everybody
I hope somebody could be able to tell me more about this quiet big blunderbuss. I don’t know in which language the marks in the stock are. The total size is around 125 cm for around 6 KG.
I Guess it was a English flintlock blunderbuss who was turn into percussion.
IT will be fantastic is someone will be able to translate those marks.
Best regards

Cerjak

[Cerjak]

still need help to translate or ID the marks .
I hope it will solved....

[VVV]

I don't know anything of blunderbusses.

But the motifs are Islamic talismans and the rattan bindings resembles those usually found on the Dayak mandau.
So my guess is that it might come from the Banjarmasin area in south Borneo where both these features are common.

Michael

[Dom]

Originally Posted by VVV

the motifs are Islamic talismans

Hi
YES, it's Islamic talismanic writing, but, through Arabic language,
means nothing intelligible
by vocation, everything related to magic is often very obscure
for the not initiated

à +

Dom

[TribalBlades]

i can read it and it is in arabic. but i can read only the individual characters because the words dont make sense. i think the word in the centre is similar to شيطان which means "devil" / satan.

but i am not sure. it is just a possible answer.

[VVV]

Originally Posted by TribalBlades

i can read it and it is in arabic. but i can read only the individual characters because the words dont make sense. i think the word in the centre is similar to شيطان which means "devil" / satan.

but i am not sure. it is just a possible answer.

It's not Satan/Iblis etc. but related to djinns etc. being the 7 seals of Solomon.
See the related thread
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16496

Michael

[VVV]

Dom,

Maybe the writing is based on simiya' (the art where the letters represent mathematical values of hidden words, names etc.)?

Michael

[Maurice]

Wow. I like this blunderbuss a lot!
Very cool. I would say Banjarmasin area also as Michael stated, as there were a lot of Blunderbusses used in the Banjarmasin war. The knots indeed looks like dayak knots used to hold the two slabs of wood of the scabbard together.

I've attached an image of some blunderbusses on a litograph of (about) 1881, Bronbeek museum Arnhem.


Thanks for sharing!
Maurice

[archer burak]

[QUOTE=Cerjak]still need help to translate or ID the marks .
I hope it will solved....[/QU
ı read '' haci sedat tahir '' but after words not familiar

[Cerjak]

[QUOTE=archer burak]

Originally Posted by Cerjak

still need help to translate or ID the marks .
I hope it will solved....[/QU
ı read '' haci sedat tahir '' but after words not familiar

Dear Archer,

Please could you let me know from where are you reading those words and what it means : word or name ?
Best

Cerjak

[archer burak]

Originally Posted by Cerjak

Need id and translation for a big blunderbuss.
Hi everybody
I hope somebody could be able to tell me more about this quiet big blunderbuss. I don’t know in which language the marks in the stock are. The total size is around 125 cm for around 6 KG.
I Guess it was a English flintlock blunderbuss who was turn into percussion.
IT will be fantastic is someone will be able to translate those marks.
Best regards

Cerjak

Hi all , ı read hacı sadraci on butt it arabic but not Türk