A ‚Christian’ Yataghan – Translation help needed :-)

[Dom]

Originally Posted by Tatyana Dianova

...snip...And I thought that maybe the Yataghan belonged to a person, who was a hidden Christian…
Dom, do you think that this level of quality still existed on the turn of 20th century? VERY similar blades one may see in Astvazaturian’s book on Turkish Arms, page 153, and all of them date to the very limited period of 1800-1810…

Hi Tatyana
I'm not an expert, just an "amateur"
my comments involve ... only myself ... without any warranty
my capacities, are, just to have opportunity of a "charming spouse" fully fluent in arabic, and Islamic culture,
and be myself fascinated for Middle-East and more particularly his weapons and armors

you was expressing the possibility of "an hidden Christian" !!!
when you will know that according with Islam the Muslim relapse is convicted by death (beheaded ..)
only a senseless could take a major risk to show a Christian sign

concerning the date, until 1923 date of disbanded of Othman Empire and the end of XX century,
it was very fanshionnable to be infatuated by "antic's", see Viollet-le-Duc period in France, plenty copies of "Orientalism",
Napoleon the Third ans his wife Eugénie very popular in Egypt, where have been exported the style "N III", who is a "L. XIV" copy ....
even we have Qajar Art ended around 1924, and that Persian production looks oldest than his period, with; armors, helmets, brassards, axes, hammers, mailshirt, etc.
not easy to know with certitude where is the truth, may be there are ... several truthes ...

best regards

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Dom