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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3935785, member: 2844"]I keep seeing an asymmetrical hilt on Casey's photos, and no notches on the blade.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/confused.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" /> To me the hilt has the same shape as the one on this Ottoman Balkans bichaq:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322419[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The use of Arabic on a Berber khoummiya would not go down well with the Berbers I used to know. Years ago I saw a Spanish made replica of a khoummiya with an Arabic inscription. Moroccans did comment on that.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/redface.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3935785, member: 2844"]I keep seeing an asymmetrical hilt on Casey's photos, and no notches on the blade.:confused: To me the hilt has the same shape as the one on this Ottoman Balkans bichaq: [ATTACH=full]322419[/ATTACH] The use of Arabic on a Berber khoummiya would not go down well with the Berbers I used to know. Years ago I saw a Spanish made replica of a khoummiya with an Arabic inscription. Moroccans did comment on that.:oops:[/QUOTE]
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