Two shashkas for comment

ariel · 6th June 2016, 07:19 AM

Circassians got most of their blades from Crimea and European exports.
But there are Daghestani blades with obvious European provenance. I have a Daghestani one with old German blade.
It's late ( 2 am) and I am too tired to look, but Astvatsaturyan cites a Russian traveler who was dumbfounded finding piles of old blades in a Daghestani workshop: Genoese, Andrea Ferara, Solingen, you name it... But in general you are absolutely right.

The same Astvatsaturyan writes that most of the so-called "Hungarian " blades " Vivat Hussar" were in fact German. Just as most blades with Genoese "jaws" these days are found on Indian tulwars. Follow the money:-)
Arabs prized Hungarian blades very much, called them Majjar ( Magyar). Little did they know :-)

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6th June 2016, 07:19 AM	#8
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Circassians got most of their blades from Crimea and European exports. But there are Daghestani blades with obvious European provenance. I have a Daghestani one with old German blade. It's late ( 2 am) and I am too tired to look, but Astvatsaturyan cites a Russian traveler who was dumbfounded finding piles of old blades in a Daghestani workshop: Genoese, Andrea Ferara, Solingen, you name it... But in general you are absolutely right. The same Astvatsaturyan writes that most of the so-called "Hungarian " blades " Vivat Hussar" were in fact German. Just as most blades with Genoese "jaws" these days are found on Indian tulwars. Follow the money:-) Arabs prized Hungarian blades very much, called them Majjar ( Magyar). Little did they know :-)