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Originally Posted by ariel
The upper ones are generic knives., identical blades are seen on Khazar, Celtic, Varangian ( Norsemen, Viking, Norman, - choose your poison:-). What part of Russia did they come from, BTW?
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Identical blades... Ok. The handle, as I understand it, was borrowed from the European rondel dagger, and some differences do not count?
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Originally Posted by ariel
Yes, this is my knife: F. Smagin + location but I can't find my loupe and the letters are small. 20th century. Bought it for a pittance, just to re-sell it to some Russian collector, to raise the intensity of his patriotic fervor. Want it?
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Very strange. On that forum you were told that the knife is a very common fake. No, thanks. I'm not patriotic so much.
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Originally Posted by ariel
Sabers are generic European, nothing specific. I shall take your word they were manufactured in Russia after Oriental /European models, just like all Russian sabers. The upper one is often characterized as " Hungarian magnate". The remaining two have Russian ( likely) gold work, but the construction is generic. All of your examples are from 18-19 century, when Russia copied European sabers. Has it suddenly invented anything original at that time?
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1618 and first half of the 17th century. Both sabers were made in the Kremlin Armory. Now it is a museum, and since the 16th century it has been an armory workshop of the Moscow Kremlin.