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gp, do you know who the king on horseback is supposed to be?
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Unfortunately not: the only title on this sculpture is “ Guerrier à Cheval “ , i.e. warrior on horse and made end 19th century. Sometimes “Ottoman” added to warrior on some of the literature describing this piece of art.
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with reference to a resent topic, one of the early pics in "the West" of these fierce and feared warriors
"Janissaire, Chef-Arciere, Comandante, et Bourreau Turc - XV -XVI Siècle" acquaforte originale ca. 15,5x25,5 cm by Raphael Jacquemin (1821 - 1881) in a book of maps published by Delatre Paris in 1870 |
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some CDV's from the Ottoman Empire around 1860/70
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a few postcards from the DACH region between 1885 - 1913 with halberds:
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Period Photo of Armenian circa 1880
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some nice Balkan pics, Macedonian, Greek and Albanian amongst them.
Between 1875 - 1905 |
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