Damascus bladed shashka

erlikhan · 1st April 2005, 03:31 PM

I know its not so healthy without picture but unfortunately not any available at the moment. I wonder, and request you to help on the international market price estimations for a shashka, long, leather scabbard with typical silver nielloed mountings, hilt completely covered with typical niello silver, and blade, rustless very good damascus steel with 2-3 cms gold koftgari on one side, and around 15cms long gold koftgari on the other side. You can write your estimations here, no problem for me but if forum rules prevent, I request you to write amounts in private message. (Anybody, dont waste time searching for it, it is not on ebay or any internet site)

regards

Andrew · 1st April 2005, 05:58 PM

Erlikhan, the rules prohibit appraisals on the forum. If anyone would like to discuss that aspect further, please do so via email or PM.

Thanks,
Andrew

ariel · 1st April 2005, 06:02 PM

Duh??????
Without even seeing it?
You think you can get away with having this very interesting shashka and not showing it?
Come on, Erlikhan, make us happy!

erlikhan · 12th April 2005, 03:19 PM

ok. finally the pictures. damascus blade, both sides gold koftgari, one bigger and other small.. length 95 cm. and in addition to my first question, anybody suggests which tribe it belongs to?

http://www.pbase.com/erlik1453/inbox

regards

Andrew · 12th April 2005, 05:00 PM

Erlikhan, that's a beautiful sword, thanks for sharing it!

It's difficult to discern from the photos: is the blade wootz or pattern-welded?

I'm struck by the beautiful fullering. It reminds me of the fullering often seen on Chinese dao. Also, do I see gold/brass dots inlaid into the blade? Is that common for a shashka?

Andrew

erlikhan · 12th April 2005, 07:56 PM

Andrew, it is wootz with a rather low contrast. the dots are just some kind of stain, perhaps beginning of rust?. they seem to remove easily without any pitting left behind
regards

1st April 2005, 03:31 PM	#1
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	Damascus bladed shashka I know its not so healthy without picture but unfortunately not any available at the moment. I wonder, and request you to help on the international market price estimations for a shashka, long, leather scabbard with typical silver nielloed mountings, hilt completely covered with typical niello silver, and blade, rustless very good damascus steel with 2-3 cms gold koftgari on one side, and around 15cms long gold koftgari on the other side. You can write your estimations here, no problem for me but if forum rules prevent, I request you to write amounts in private message. (Anybody, dont waste time searching for it, it is not on ebay or any internet site) regards

12th April 2005, 03:19 PM	#4
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	ok. finally the pictures. damascus blade, both sides gold koftgari, one bigger and other small.. length 95 cm. and in addition to my first question, anybody suggests which tribe it belongs to? http://www.pbase.com/erlik1453/inbox regards Last edited by erlikhan; 12th April 2005 at 04:22 PM.

12th April 2005, 07:56 PM	#6
erlikhan Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Istanbul Posts: 452	Andrew, it is wootz with a rather low contrast. the dots are just some kind of stain, perhaps beginning of rust?. they seem to remove easily without any pitting left behind regards Last edited by erlikhan; 12th April 2005 at 08:19 PM.

1st April 2005, 05:58 PM	#2
Andrew Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA Posts: 1,725	Erlikhan, the rules prohibit appraisals on the forum. If anyone would like to discuss that aspect further, please do so via email or PM. Thanks, Andrew

1st April 2005, 06:02 PM	#3
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Duh?????? Without even seeing it? You think you can get away with having this very interesting shashka and not showing it? Come on, Erlikhan, make us happy!

12th April 2005, 05:00 PM	#5
Andrew Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: USA Posts: 1,725	Erlikhan, that's a beautiful sword, thanks for sharing it! It's difficult to discern from the photos: is the blade wootz or pattern-welded? I'm struck by the beautiful fullering. It reminds me of the fullering often seen on Chinese dao. Also, do I see gold/brass dots inlaid into the blade? Is that common for a shashka? Andrew