A TURKISH SABRE with broad curved single-edged blade with yelman, the back bordered on each face by two narrow fullers, on one face each engraved 'Genva' for Genoa, the ricasso struck on each side with the maker's stamp of Yaqulah, hilt comprising short downcurved iron quillons with shaped tips and double langets, and beaked handle with wooden grip-scales held by pewter rivets, in original leather-covered wooden scabbard (tip incomplete, leather with some damage) with two brass ring-lockets engraved with conventional foliage, 17th Century | Christie's

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A TURKISH SABRE with broad curved single-edged blade with yelman, the back bordered on each face by two narrow fullers, on one face each engraved 'Genva' for Genoa, the ricasso struck on each side with the maker's stamp of Yaqulah, hilt comprising short downcurved iron quillons with shaped tips and double langets, and beaked handle with wooden grip-scales held by pewter rivets, in original leather-covered wooden scabbard (tip incomplete, leather with some damage) with two brass ring-lockets engraved with conventional foliage, 17th Century

细节

A TURKISH SABRE with broad curved single-edged blade with yelman, the back bordered on each face by two narrow fullers, on one face each engraved 'Genva' for Genoa, the ricasso struck on each side with the maker's stamp of Yaqulah, hilt comprising short downcurved iron quillons with shaped tips and double langets, and beaked handle with wooden grip-scales held by pewter rivets, in original leather-covered wooden scabbard (tip incomplete, leather with some damage) with two brass ring-lockets engraved with conventional foliage, 17th Century
30in. blade

拍品专文

For a sabre with quillons of similar form and a blade with similar inscription See Z. Zygulski, Bron w Dawnej Polsce, Warsaw, 1975, p. 333, fig. 253