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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joanne Mayfield, post: 4299939, member: 17130&quot;]Cleaned up a bit. Found maybe a few marks. And got a little more info. I just interested on where the blade is from. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The guard is a traditional style, made from the 17th through early 19th centuries.&nbsp; The inscriptions are fairly generic, on one side reading &quot;In the name of God, most compassionate and merciful&quot; and on the other &quot;Help from God and victory near&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; The workmanship points to quite late, I would say first half 19th cent.&nbsp;&nbsp; Earlier craftsmanship is more precise, the lettering more elegant.</p><p><br /></p><p>The scabbard is of fairly rudimentary construction, probably done in one of the tribal areas. One suspension loop is missing.&nbsp; On Persian scabbards there was almost never a metal piece at the mouth of the scabbard, the leather just goes all the way to the end.&nbsp; The example highlighted in the other photo is of an Arab-style hilt and scabbard.</p><p><br /></p><p>The blade is not Persian and not wootz.&nbsp;&nbsp; It looks like a recycled Western cavalry saber blade, probably Russian or British since those were the two powers which were active in the area during the&nbsp; 19th century and up until World War I.&nbsp; The slight curvature and single wide fuller on each side are dead giveaways.&nbsp; If you cleaned the rust from the ricasso, under the langets of the guard, I won&#039;t be surprised if you find the military markings that were on the blade when it was originally made&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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