Questions about Tabar axe

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

For form...certainly on the Persian Tabarizin or saddle hatchet...saddle axe.... I would observe http://www.caravanacollection.com/pr....html#more-425 bearing in mind that axes similar to these were produced up to and beyond the Qajar Dynasty ...up to 1923 and beyond... and during that time were used as parade axes. I look for axe manufacturers in that late period but nothing yet... however I see no reason why they could not have continued in production in Iran but not forgetting that they were used in several neighboring countries as announced by the word Tabarizin spanning across the spectrum ... viz;

Tabar (axe)
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Indian

(Sind) tabar battle axe, late 18th century or earlier, crescent shape 5-inch-long head with a square hammer opposite of the blade, 22-inch-long steel haft, the end of the haft unscrews to reveal a 5-inch or longer slim blade. Heavily patinated head and handle with traces of engraving. India

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the tabar battle axe was a standard weapon of the mounted warriors of India, Afghanistan and what is now Pakistan. Made entirely of metal or with a wood haft, it had a strongly curved blade and a hammer-headed poll and was often decorated with scroll work. Sometimes a small knife was inserted in the tabar's hollow haft.

The tabar (also called tabarzin, which means "saddle axe") is a type of battle axe. The term tabar is used for axes originating from the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Armenia, India and surrounding countries and cultures. As a loanword taken through Iranian Scythian, the word tabar is also used in most Slavic languages as the word for axe (e.g. Russian: топор).


Persia

The tabarzin (saddle axe) (Persian: تبرزین‎‎; sometimes translated "saddle-hatchet") is the traditional battle axe of Persia (Iran). It bears one or two crescent-shaped blades or the well known powerful stubby axe shape with hammer head on one side and heavy axe on the other. The long form of the tabar was about seven feet long, while a shorter version was about three feet long. What makes the Persian axe unique is the less broad handle, which is light and usually metallic.

The tabarzin was sometimes carried as a symbolic weapon by wandering dervishes (Muslim ascetic worshippers).The word tabar for axe was directly borrowed into Armenian as tapar (Armenian: տապար) from Middle Persian tabar,as well as into Proto-Slavonic as "topor" (*toporъ), the latter word known to be taken through Scythian,and is still the common Slavic word for axe.