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Luke Adams
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 Posted: Mon 21 Aug, 2017 6:33 pm Post subject: Curved Sword Identification |
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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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Rick F
Location: England, UK Joined: 15 Jun 2017
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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 
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Mark Moore
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I was thinking something Arabic or possibly Turkish or Russian, but I'm probably wrong.  Never really seen the likes of it.  ...McM
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Mikko Kuusirati
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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?
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Timo Nieminen
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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).
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Luke Adams
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Great, thanks everyone! Especially to Timo for the link.
"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
- German proverb
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Sa'ar Nudel
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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
Curator of Beit Ussishkin, regional nature & history museum, Upper Galilee.
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This is a standard topic