The Frankfurt History Museum has a section dedicated to various collections of Frankfurt citizens, which include some really interesting and nice items. Frida Kahlo's great uncle was apparently a collector of high end antique guns, and among the European hunting firearms there is a 17th century Ottoman flintlock gun.
My favorite item are 2 bazubands from Sudan, which were collected by a certain Eduard Ruppel with some other items including an Ingessana throwing knife from Sudan in the 1820s. I am not sure if they are Ottoman or Persian in origin - I suspect the undecorated one is Ottoman and not sure about the other. They must have been put together in the Sudan, as they obviously do not match, but it is also clear that in their current iteration are intended as a pair for both hands. Ruppel traveled to Egypt in 1823, to Meroe and Dongola in 1824, Kordofan in 1825 and all around the Red Sea in 1826 and 1827. These are the years just after the fall of the various Islamic states and the Egyptian conquest, well before the Mahdi. Sadky I could find no further notes on where these bazubands may have been collected during the journey.
This wraps up all the ehtnographic arms, unless we count an interesting compilation in the Baumann collection in Rothenburg with an Omani/Zanzibari scabbard which I posted in another thread and which received zero interest.
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