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SOLD Huge Antique 18th - 19th century Turkish Ottoman Sword Islamic Yatagan Yataghan

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SOLD Huge, antique 18th - 19th century, Turkish Ottoman Sword, Yatagan-Yataghan.
DETAILS: A characteristic ear shaped hilt formed of two pieces of dark brown horn, retained by two iron rivets, complete with brass ferrule. A huge and massive, recurved, single - edged steel blade, with traces of Damascus pattern, with full length narrow fuller below the spine, and cut on each side with pairs of slender fullers.
The forte deeply struck with an Ottoman sword smith's mark, a cartouche inscribed in the Arabic alphabet. In its original wooden scabbard covered with navy blue velvet (the fabric is probably leather replacement).
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