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Old 12th May 2016, 10:03 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Kubur
Hi Strech
You are amazing to find pictures!
Very useful and first mistake they did it's a tiger dagger from Northern India.
Best,
Kubur
Commonly known as an Indian tiger tooth jambiya but for some reason they seem to have labeled almost all of their jambiya and khanjar as khanjar.

Here is another very weird thing they have done with several images, they surround the item being photographed with pieces of black paper? This is an Ottoman kilij, but they have labeled it as a
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Sword (kilic) (1700-1799) kilic Persian blade European mounts 19th.century
you can see how it looks on their site and after I edited both images extensively, I just do not see any "European mounts" though and no evidence that I can see which would make the blade "Persian". Further down they describe the blade this way
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the blade of the sword is single edge, curved widening slightly and becoming double edged near the point in the turkish manner.
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