The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Arabian shamshir sword. The hilt has a straight brass crossguard with round button ends and double pointed langets. The grips are bone rivetted to the tang with a brass wire bound collar and the pommel is a L shape design. The curved blade has a broad double fuller to each side with three smaller grooves cut into the centre back fuller for about 400 mm and has a spear point. A sun and moon design is engraved into the right ricasso.
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Arabian shamshir sword and scabbard. The hilt has a straight steel crossguard with round button ends and double langets. The grips are steel rivetted to the tang and the pommel is a curved bulbous des
Persian shamshir sword and scabbard. The hilt has a straight steel crossguard with round button ends and pointed double langets. The grips are brass and silver studded bone rivetted to the tang with s
Persian shamshir sword and scabbard. The hilt has a straight steel crossguard with round button ends and pointed langets. The grips are bone rivetted to the tang and the pommel is a curved L shape des
Arabian scimitar sword. The hilt has a straight crossguard with round flat ends and double langets. A band of reinforcing wire is soldered over the lower part of the grip and top langets to form a fer
Libyan Scimitar sword and scabbard. The hilt is a straight brass engraved crossguard with double langets and engraved brass strap around the tang. The bone grips are rivetted to the tang and has a pro
Turkish Shamshir sword and scabbard. The hilt is a straight silver engraved crossguard with double langets and engraved silver strap around the tang. The wooden grips are rivetted to the tang and has
