Sabre for id and comments

ward · 4th February 2009, 07:09 AM

This one is Ottoman provinces, probably Arabia looking at the scabbard. The guard and upper mount were replaced sometime in working life.

Yustas · 4th February 2009, 04:28 PM

What bothers me is this statue on the scabbard.
I don't think arabs would make these.
Is it possible, that it was done in Lviv by armenian masters?
From my point of view floral ornament, and the kozak itself is solely generic for Ukrainian design tradition.

ingvar · 4th February 2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Yustas

What bothers me is this statue on the scabbard.
I don't think arabs would make these.
Is it possible, that it was done in Lviv by armenian masters?
From my point of view floral ornament, and the kozak itself is solely generic for Ukrainian design tradition.

in this case, arabs only made the pommel, the rest came later.

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4th February 2009, 07:09 AM	#1
ward Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 637	This one is Ottoman provinces, probably Arabia looking at the scabbard. The guard and upper mount were replaced sometime in working life.