Kindjal for comment

ASPaulding · 31st March 2022, 03:21 AM

I know the langauge is arabic.

ariel · 31st March 2022, 10:14 AM

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.

francantolin · 1st April 2022, 09:16 PM

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...

31st March 2022, 03:21 AM	#1
ASPaulding Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 84	I know the langauge is arabic.

31st March 2022, 10:14 AM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	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.

1st April 2022, 09:16 PM	#3
francantolin Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 905	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...