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Could someone help me identify what kind of sword this is? The blade is sharp on the outside of the curve like a scimitar. Thanks in advance!
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It looks like an Indian Tulwar at first to me, but the hilt is different to what I know.
Wait for the experts though, because I'm not one :)
Wait for the experts though, because I'm not one :)
I was thinking something Arabic or possibly Turkish or Russian, but I'm probably wrong. :\ Never really seen the likes of it. :?: ...McM
The hilt looks Ethiopian to me, but shotel blades are usually double-edged and quite strongly recurved; Oriental Arms has lots of great photographs of a number of fine specimens.
This could be an imported saber blade hilted in the local style, perhaps?
This could be an imported saber blade hilted in the local style, perhaps?
Ethiopian gurade. These often have imported European blades. Hilts were traditionally rhino horn; more recent ones are often other horn or wood.
An example: http://oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=4157 (and plenty more to be seen on Oriental Arms if you enter "gurade" in the search box on the bottom left).
An example: http://oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=4157 (and plenty more to be seen on Oriental Arms if you enter "gurade" in the search box on the bottom left).
Great, thanks everyone! Especially to Timo for the link.
In the last batch of Ethiopian swords on Oriental Arms, they had one with Bakelite hilt (real sword, good blade), interesting for itself.
http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=2289
http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=2289
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