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Hello guys!
Does anyone know how this Persian item was used? |
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A fancy steel for striking flint perhaps?
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Sort of looks like the trigger to an Indian matchlock gun (torador) ?
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I may join Rick here: that was the first thing to come to my mind. On top of everything, the configuration fits.
Fancy or not, graceful or not, it will do the job. All things come in a variety of embellishments that do not change their function. A crystal snifter and a ceramic cup differ dramatically, but both are drinking vessels. Closer to home are sword handles: different forms, materials and ways of attaching them to the tang ( and I am not talking about gems, carvings or lack thereof), but they are all just a grip. My 5 cents. Well, more like two... |
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Hook for attaching a sword frog or belt pouch to a loop on a belt? What are it's dimensions?
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Here is the size
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I see no possible way of attaching the pierced part to the belt. I just cannot come up with any usable function for this thingamajig except for being a fire striker. Perhaps my “ fantasy center” is atrophic:-( And, BTW, NW India adopted open ( pierced) iron work from both Persia and South India. The Indian origin of that gizmo cannot be excluded, IMHO. |
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My guess is its a trigger from a torador, with the steel extension part re-purposed to make a fire-striker.
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I know nothing about firearms, so no professional counterargument from me.
Although, if “ .. the steel extension part (was) re-purposed to make a fire-striker”, then in its current version it became a fire-striker. Like a broken sword re-purposed to make a dagger becomes a dagger. No? |
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The problem is that you cannot prove, and nobody can prove, that the trigger was reused as a fire-striker... It could have been reused as a fishing hook ![]() |
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Not from a torador but from a Persian matchlock. Kubur |
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