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Old 24th June 2017, 09:28 AM   #1
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How do you identify a Persian from an Ottoman war mace?
I don't want to mention Indian maces because it's another topic.
Plus Indian maces are quite common compare to Persian and Ottoman ones...

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Hi Guys,

How do you identify a Persian from an Ottoman war mace?
I don't want to mention Indian maces because it's another topic.
Plus Indian maces are quite common compare to Persian and Ottoman ones...

Thanks
Kubur
If the descriptions from auctions, museums and private sales etc are correct, Persian maces are much rarer than Ottoman maces. From what I have seen the mace on the left is Persian.

As far as Indian maces go, really old Indian maces are quite rare.
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Old 24th June 2017, 01:51 PM   #3
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A group of Ottoman maces and what is said to be a Persian mace. I think that really old Persian maces and really old ottoman maces may be hard to tell apart in some cases, with the exception of Persian bull headed maces.

Persian flanged mace, Safavid period, Late 15th-early 16th century. Very rarely encountered, the elongated head with button finial and six heavy flanges with spurred terminals and stepped base, the solid steel haft forged in one piece with the head. Representing the formal descendent of bronze flanged maces in use between the 11th-14th century. Overall length 69.9 cm.
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Thank you for your reponse my friend
Well i might have found one that i'll post later.

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Thank you for your reponse my friend
Well i might have found one that i'll post later.

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Waiting......in the mean time, here are a few images of Persian maces from from the "Shahnama" (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020) Artist: Painting attributed to Mir Musavvir (active 1525–60) Artist: Painting attributed to Qasim ibn 'Ali (active ca. 1525–60). Folio from an illustrated manuscript. Date: ca. 1525–30, Iran, Tabriz, Met Museum.

One of the images shows a mace being carried in the belt of a mounted warrior, the only image of its kind I know of.
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Two maces from the Met, one is said to be Persian, the other Ottoman...but can we be sure, the Met has been wrong before.
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