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26th November 2012, 11:23 AM
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Thank you Noman and Battara. As far as the handle is concerned - for me (maybe wrongly) "Balkan" is relatively big region which includes territory from the northern Rumania (and maybe even Besarabia) and Alps foothils down to the Medditerranian Greek isles. Was this hilt used throughout all this territories or was more specific for some of them ? Is the material bone ?
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26th November 2012, 07:42 PM
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Big walrus ivory eared hilts are attributed to Bosna and the Western Balkans. I am not sure the blade was taken from a kildj/pala. To me it looks much more like a nimcha blade, as in nimcha meaning a half sword. My guess would be that someone wanted a yataghan hilted cutlass, possibly for naval use.
Regards, Teodor |
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27th November 2012, 04:00 AM
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Martin,
I was able to find a similar example in the yataghan catalogue of the Zagreb Museum: I am posting a quick photo of the relevant page. You can probably understand most of the description in Croatian: it really does not provide any interesting info. Regards, Teodor |
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