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Greetings folks! Yet another yat I got from Oriental-Arms. I cleaned it up and did a little trimming around the torn bottom of the upper silver chape. The scabbard mounts are silver done in repousse and blue velvet. The upper chape has coral and dark green glass stones.
The hilt is silver with filigree, corals, and a couple of silver niello plaques. As far as the blade is concerned, it is earlier and there are remnants of gold koftgari on both sides. Unfortunately the inscription on the one side is the best of the two and is barely visible. According to Artzi, the blade is older than the rest of the piece. One other thing. According to Elgood in his recent book on The Arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbors in the Ottoman Period, this piece is from Focha, Bosnia. I need help with translating the inscription if possible (please Zifir? ![]() Enjoy! Last edited by Battara; 2nd December 2010 at 03:21 AM. |
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Here are two pictures of the gold koftgari inscription that I need translated:
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Very nice yataghan Jose, congratulations. I have nothing to add, except that I think that during the time the yataghan was made, Foca was in the Herzegovina sanjak, rather than in the Bosnia sanjak of the Ottoman Empire. While Elgood shows two examples with writing on them expressly mentioning that they were mounted in Foca, I would guess the style was popular in Herzegovina and Montenegro, and quite certainly in parts of Bosnia and Serbia.
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Hi Battara,
Unfortunately, we, translators, are too much concerned about the artistic quality of your pictures, especially the ones of scripts. ![]() Seriously, it is very difficult to read the script from these pictures. Amel-i El-hac Muhammed Sahib Osman...then it becomes really blurred ![]() |
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Yowza! Now that's a sword! Never seen a sword with so much silver work! Beautiful, and congrats! My question is on swords like this, is it kosher to highly polish the blade ala katana style, since it looks as if the rest of it is shiny anyways?
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Thank you folks! I love it!
![]() Ron - good question. I have not polished it yet, so I don't know. Zifir - this is the best I can do at the moment - it is so worn. I guess the owner is Osman and the maker Mohammed? If I can come up with some other way to get a better script to you I will. TVV - I have seen other pieces from Focha and they too have this amount, style and quality of silver work. That being said, I would not be surprised if the surrounding areas liked this style too. You have a good point. I have seen a bichaq from Montenegro with similar silver work as well...... |
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Glad you got this Jose...I know one of this type had been on the wish list for a long time! Congrats!
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After the prices I had seen ($7000
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Personally, I like beans (red or black) and rice.
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Funny Robert, funny.......
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Zifir, would this picture be more helpful in translation? (played with several fiiters):
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Actually you started the trend, brah! You posted that barung with a yat in the background, and all of a sudden i started having this urge to add a yat in my arsenal... but hey, if someone wanna trade a complete silver junggayan kris like the one artzi have in his gallery, i'll be more than happy to go all moro once again
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Well, glad to help Spunger.
![]() And Kino, if you want to talk theology, I'm game (lots of seminary training ![]() Here is a display of my humble and meager Ottoman collection: |
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Thank you Theodor.......you are very kind.......
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