Kindjal to share, help please, markings, age, location, thanks

[ariel]

Originally Posted by JoeCanada42

I could venture to polish the blade, and then learn to etch it, would a Damascus pattern likely be underneath? or maybe a 1% chance wootz?

Don’t bother. Caucasian blades are almost never damascus: too expensive and time consuming. The only exception where pattern - welding was relatively frequent are kindjals coming from Guria. And this is not a Gurian one.
And wootz .... forget about it. The last master who (rarely) forged wootz blades from Indian ingots was Geurk Elizarov , and you kindjal is somewhere from late 19th century up to the WW2. They never made their own wootz ingots.

[JoeCanada42]

I wont clean it, it shows the age and I like that.
thanks for the info concerning the chances of it of it though.
Mariusgmoic that does look like the same mark. surely there is info about it somewhere but I haven't fount it yet.
I collected a few versions, as someone who doesn't know yet i could guess it resembles a byzantine rooftop, a tureen or a poppy flower.