Help identifying Qajar Kindjal

[BBJW]

I believe early 20th century Persian with perhaps some Indian influence.--bbjw

[A.alnakkas]

Since the original poster did not update us about the blade, I'll share mine.

The mounts are crude, but Qajar period produced high quality and low quality items. The blade though is wootz and I believe even the original poster's blade is wootz as well. Seems to be from the same workshop.

[mariusgmioc]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Since the original poster did not update us about the blade, I'll share mine.

The mounts are crude, but Qajar period produced high quality and low quality items. The blade though is wootz and I believe even the original poster's blade is wootz as well. Seems to be from the same workshop.

Indeed, they are very similar. And that is wootz indeed but in my opinion recent, 20th century crystalline wootz.

[simsar999]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Since the original poster did not update us about the blade, I'll share mine.

The mounts are crude, but Qajar period produced high quality and low quality items. The blade though is wootz and I believe even the original poster's blade is wootz as well. Seems to be from the same workshop.

My apologies! For some reason I am not getting updates nor am I able to see my subscribed posts, so I had no idea there were replies! I'll be trying to fix this now.
I am not sure if the blade is wootz quite honestly, and I have no idea how to test it. But yes, yours most definitely looks like mine!