Single-edged blades with a ridge

[gp]

Originally Posted by bookandswordblog

As part of a project on kopis and machaira swords in the ancient Aegean, I am thinking about cross-sections and swords designed for low-carbon unhardenable steel. Its not generally appreciated that these swords had ridges not fullers if they were more than a simple wedge-section. The fullers are more typical of war knives from Iberia. I have archaeological drawings but little data on distal taper and most ancient swords are too rusted to precisely measure anyways.

So I am trying to collect types of single-edge blades from the last few hundred years that often have a thickened spine or a ridge along the blade close to the back edge. The three that come to mind are:

- many Ottoman yataghans and kilij
- many peshkabz daggers from the Persianate world
- some nineteenth-century sabres from western Europe like Prosser's pipe-backed blades for the British Army

Am I missing any single-edged weapons that tend to have a T-section or -+--- section?

Welcome! Can you show us a few example pictures you are thinking of referring to? Thank you very much!

[bookandswordblog]

Originally Posted by gp

Welcome! Can you show us a few example pictures you are thinking of referring to? Thank you very much!

I can copy from my markdown file based on a quick glance through Egerton and some catalogue searches.

Yataghan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 32.75.261a, b <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23379>

Peshkabz eg. Victoria and Albert Museum, object 3436&A/(IS) <https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O...heath-unknown/> British Museum object As1982,11.3.a <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collec..._As1982-11-3-a> British Museum object As1982,11.2.a-b <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collec...s1982-11-2-a-b>

Some Khyber knives like Victoria and Albert Museum, object IM.218&A-1920 <https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O...heath-unknown/> (there may be others in the V&A)

Possibly this tulwar-hilted, saw-toothed broadsword, V&A Museum object 3142(IS) <https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O...sword-unknown/>

I have not looked into the 19th-century South Asian swords which get very broad towards the tip.