Dalmatian yatagan

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Originally Posted by Victrix

I think in Europe national languages were standardised in the second half of 19thc and before that people wrote phonetically pretty much the way they wanted. This way of spelling could be Italian. It’s too early for the French era.

Nice observation on Italian origin, But, italians dont use W in their alphabet, Austrians do use W.
And there are several yatagans in Croatian museums in Dalmatia with identical, writing all atributed to Austrian.

In this case it is for sure latter aded Austrian version of name Marko Vukasović, very comon name in dalmatian background Dalmatinska Zagora, mostly populated with vlaji or morlaci.