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29th December 2020, 11:14 AM
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A very nice blade, but actually I don't see rhino horn.
The structure of the material seems to be wrong. Regards |
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29th December 2020, 11:37 AM
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Hello,
Thank you all for your comments, there is translusence in the hilts grips and it looks between wood-horn so maybe rhino... I will try to make some good close up of the grip and the blade and post it |
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29th December 2020, 03:05 PM
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Some more pics of the blade
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29th December 2020, 03:08 PM
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the hilt, with/without torch
19th century ? I thought maybe too a north african/algerian model ( hilt shape and materials)... Kind regards |
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29th December 2020, 05:02 PM
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The repaired part of the hilt could be wood.
The rest is horn, but probably no rhino horn. In this thread you can see the structure of rhino horn very well, especially in post 18: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6162 I think the yataghan is turkish and not from North Africa. Regards |
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29th December 2020, 07:25 PM
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Hello GonzoAdler,
I know rhino structure but we don't see the spaghetti structure anytime, sometimes it's really homogenous and translucent ( have a jambiya like that ) sometimes it can be dark and really fibrous like this one sold by a serious house, I think you would say it's just wood  ...I can do the sticky test... Maybe the rhino hilt opinion change depending on if you have it in you hands or not Ps: the repaired part is on the other side: without nails,looks like wax-bakelite, and transluscent too, can't be wood at all |
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29th December 2020, 08:21 PM
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Concerning the piece from Oriental Arms: I would not say it's just wood and these small dots, resulting from cutted tubes, are of course not the only indicator but a very good one. Normally you can find these dots somewhere on the surface if it is rhino horn.
Because of the transluscence: I had and have Khanjars and Nimchas with rhino hilts but I owned also a Khanjar with a translucent horn hilt which was definitely no rhino. It looked different from your Yatagan but transluscence is no save indicator for this material (or for bakelite/plastic). Sometimes it is hard to judge the material with pictures, that's right. Rhino or not, you have an undecorated but interesting and good Yataghan. Regards |
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