20th September 2024, 04:12 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2024
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Originally Posted by AvtoGaz
Just arrived today. This is quite possibly one of the rarest ethnographic weapons, I am only aware of one example that ever sold (this one, sold once in 2012, the same example sold to yours truly in late 2023) and a very small number of photographs of 2 other examples, which were posted to this forum. So needless to say it's a great privilege to have this in my collection.
In terms of identifying this weapon, it seems to be a very extravagant version of the Kurdish-Armenian yatagans, which are somewhat more well-known and documented. The closest thing, both in blade form and decoration, is this Yatagan (find it below) with stylistic inscriptions in the Armenian alphabet.
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It may be for theater or a performance. The engaving at the man on the end matches my Qajar theatrics kindjal very closely. See my post on it as well.
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