A Nimcha

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

I dont see a reason why these are locally applied. Omani's do apply a crown on their recently made weapons but we are talking about North African weapons here and North African weapons tend to have European blades quite often.

Hi Lofty,
Actually these triple fuller blades do not correspond to blades on any British swords I can think of during the Victorian period (1837-1901) and a large stamp like this would not have been applied in the center of the blade in this manner The only blades with the VR cypher were officers and those were etched in the blade. Acceptance stamps using crown and initials were small and near forte, usually GR. In the Victorian period the acceptance stamps were WD post 1855 and BO and arrow prior.

This is a most impressive stamp, but not in accord with anything normally used on British blades, the blade form not withstanding. As always I look forward to information otherwise, but this is my personal experience.

Best regards,
Jim

[spiral]

I have to agree Jim.. Ibrahim, Although I suspect the range of such fake marks may include North Africa as well as the Arabian Peninsula....

This machete was for sale on ebay a couple of years ago...

A Fascinating range of unlikely marks!

Spiral