Blade identification needed on Moroccan nimcha sword.

[Cerjak]

Blade identification needed on Moroccan nimcha sword.
This Nimcha has a rhino horn hilt
May be a member could tell me from which kind of European saber could come this Nimcha blade.

Best CERJAK

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Probably German blade See # 9 at http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=NIMCHA for the same crosses and moon mark.

[ariel]

Usually, such blades with 3 rather narrow fullers are of local manufacture.
It also seems to me that just at the level of stamps the fullers become somewhat curved: heated for stamping?
Kind of too crude for the Germans:-)

[Roland_M]

Originally Posted by ariel

Usually, such blades with 3 rather narrow fullers are of local manufacture.
It also seems to me that just at the level of stamps the fullers become somewhat curved: heated for stamping?
Kind of too crude for the Germans:-)

Hello Ariel,

as a German I'm with you. It is a well known fact, that Kaskara-blades for example were manufactured in Solingen and exported to Africa. But they never had such poorly shaped fullers, never, even not in wartimes.


Roland

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Yes that is possible although what if this was straight originally and was hammered into a curved shape.

There is however, no unsharpened section at the forte supporting the idea of a local blade and I tend to agree on the crosses and Dukari moon styles being local...

[Kubur]

Well, I have seen a lot of "locals" and to me this blade is not local.

Cerjak is it possible to know the length of your blade?
Thanks