Sword And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: Anthropology Conservation Lab records identify as a Turkish? sword with green horn? pommel. Sword has a curved blade. Sheath is leather and silver.
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: Rare 17-18th C. Ottoman Turkish shamshir. Green stained walrus ivory grip. Blade is of deeply curved profile and displays Ottoman Turkish style sham wootz, watered steel. The ricasso of the blade is overlaid in an unusual vegetal motifs with caligraphic scrolls . The crossguard is pierced as are the scabbard mounts. The scabbard is missing the chape fitting. The remaining scabbard fittings are chased and repoussed silver work, now tarnished. Sword as a whole likely dates to the 18th C, blade possibly earlier.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkish
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: EC367-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath