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[SOLD] Antique 18th century Ukrainian Cossacks Sword Shamshir
[E321]
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SOLD--An extremely rare antique 18th century Zaporozhian Cossacks sword made in the manner of a Persian sword shamshir. Details: A single–edged curved wide and very heavy Damascus steel blade, decorated with silver inlaid ornaments. The hilt of the sword is made in a typical Persian style, with a brass cross-guard, wooden grips with copper and brass straps, an iron pommel cup and wire wrap. A leather-bound and stitched with spiral brass wire wooden scabbard with two iron fittings with loops for suspension primitively decorated with a stamped design of oak leaves and acorns.
Many of these types of crudely made swords in the style of the Persian shamshir can be seen in Ukrainian Museums and are associated with the Zaporozhian Cossacks and are dated to the 17th-18th century. The Cossacks imported blades for swords mostly from the Crimean Tatars Khanate, Persia, or Turkey, which were then mounted locally in Ukraine but in the Persian and Turkish style of mounting.
This sword, except for a general Shamshir pattern, has not a single detail connecting it with fine Islamic art work. All of the features of this sword such as the wooden hilt with straps and the crossguard made of various metals as copper, iron, and brass, the fittings of the scabbard made of an iron sheet and stamped with a design of oak leaves and acorns, an uneven spiral brass wire on the leather-bound scabbard, and the crude silver ornaments on the blade, indicate that this is rare example of a Zaporozhian Cossack's sword made in the style of a Persian Shamshir.
Condition: The sword is in good condition considering its age with minor wear and pitting except for the scabbard which is damaged with a split, a broken end, and the leather is extremely dry and fragile, partly missing.
REFERENCES: 1)A very similar sword is published in the Catalogue - Album "The National Museum Of History Of Ukraine" No 191. Kyiv 2001.
2) Козацька шабля. XVII - XVIII ст.: Історико-зброєзнавче дослідження by Денис ТОЇЧКІН.3) Украина- козацька держава by Володимир Недяк.4) "GLORY OF UKRAINIAN KOZAKS" (SLAVA UKRAJINSKOGO KOZACTVA) by Petro Kardash, Dr. Sergij Kot.5) "Z ukrainskoi starovyny" by IU O. Ivanchenko, DI I Avornytskyi, Mykola Samokysh, Serhii Ivanovych Vasylkivskyi.
The overall length in the scabbard is 96 cm (37 3/4 inches). |
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Price: $0.00
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