Kindjal for comment

ASPaulding · 28th March 2022, 12:57 PM

Hello I recently purchased this Kindjal. I would like some thoughts on if it authentic or a tourist piece. Also if anybody may be able to date and translate the piece. Thank you for your time.

ASPaulding · 28th March 2022, 02:45 PM

Thank you

Interested Party · 30th March 2022, 02:29 PM

Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?

I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard.

fernando · 30th March 2022, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Interested Party

Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum?

I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard.

O.K. Let's try that aproach.

Fernando K · 30th March 2022, 03:55 PM

Hello
In my humble opinion, this is a tourist piece. The decoration of the sheet, etched in acid, mimics a script with oriental characters. The hilt, scabbard rim and tip appear to have been cast.

Afectionally

ASPaulding · 30th March 2022, 04:33 PM

Here's is pictures of the back. Thanks

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...

28th March 2022, 12:57 PM	#1
ASPaulding Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 84	Kindjal for comment Hello I recently purchased this Kindjal. I would like some thoughts on if it authentic or a tourist piece. Also if anybody may be able to date and translate the piece. Thank you for your time.

28th March 2022, 02:45 PM	#2
ASPaulding Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 84	Photos Thank you Attached Images

30th March 2022, 02:29 PM	#3
Interested Party Member Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Eastern Sierra Posts: 467	Maybe this needs to be in the Ethnographic forum? I would like to see a picture of the back of the scabbard. Last edited by Interested Party; 30th March 2022 at 02:32 PM. Reason: Hmmm

30th March 2022, 04:33 PM	#6
ASPaulding Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 84	Here's is pictures of the back. Thanks Attached Images

30th March 2022, 03:55 PM	#5
Fernando K Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 669	Hello In my humble opinion, this is a tourist piece. The decoration of the sheet, etched in acid, mimics a script with oriental characters. The hilt, scabbard rim and tip appear to have been cast. Afectionally

31st March 2022, 03:21 AM	#7
ASPaulding Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Posts: 84	I know the langauge is arabic.

31st March 2022, 10:14 AM	#8
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	#9
francantolin Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 876	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...