Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Silver Mounted Bichaq, Turkish Ribbon Blade

ALEX · 3rd May 2009, 07:05 PM

Teodor/Ariel,
Your comments certainly have good merit, i.e. if the blade is legible dated, it only makes sense to accept it as a fact.
My 'system' places more emphasis on quality, condition and material. The older fittings I observed tend to show more wear-and-tear signs, especially on fittings made of thinner silver, such as in our case, and this is a reason I put late 19th Century on it. I think extra 70-80 years would have add more 'wrinkles' on the relatively thin silver fittings! The older blade could as well be re-fitted. As for place of origin - I actually thought them to be Balkan as well, but most literature calls them "Turkish", and as it's the same empire - it's a tough call:-)

3rd May 2009, 07:05 PM	#7
ALEX Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 936	Teodor/Ariel, Your comments certainly have good merit, i.e. if the blade is legible dated, it only makes sense to accept it as a fact. My 'system' places more emphasis on quality, condition and material. The older fittings I observed tend to show more wear-and-tear signs, especially on fittings made of thinner silver, such as in our case, and this is a reason I put late 19th Century on it. I think extra 70-80 years would have add more 'wrinkles' on the relatively thin silver fittings! The older blade could as well be re-fitted. As for place of origin - I actually thought them to be Balkan as well, but most literature calls them "Turkish", and as it's the same empire - it's a tough call:-)