Can Anyone Read This?

[izzop]

"If you can't read this, turn up other way!"

 

[MooMoo444]

Arabic for 'REPLICA'

 

[UTmaniac]

Rhyl

 

[Wazz-1]

Vote ban out op

 

[MoRT489]

"Hold the door"

 

[fatiain]

"Wilkinson Sword"

 

[V4NT0M]

It says 19xyyw*9ww

 

[antijoke]

"Caution: Blade may be sharp, keep away from children."

 

[Deleted member 66701]

It's truncated, the grammar is off a little and without knowing the exact Yemeni region the sword originated from or the time period it's hard to be 100% certain but it can be interpreted as saying "Who dies today is safe from tomorrow's sin.", or near enough.

However, the grammar leads me to believe this isn't much of an antique, most likely produced after 1970. Did you get any kind of certificate of authenticity with it?

 

[StoutMeister]

"I feel your pain"

Brilliant!

 

[fatiain]

"Do not insert past this mark"

 

[Usher]

It's a crude attempt at writing Persian script but not professionally engraved ( or is it etched?) & the lettering doesn't make any sense whatsoever either

 

[Noxia]

It's truncated, the grammar is off a little and without knowing the exact Yemeni region the sword originated from or the time period it's hard to be 100% certain but it can be interpreted as saying "Who dies today is safe from tomorrow's sin.", or near enough.

However, the grammar leads me to believe this isn't much of an antique, most likely produced after 1970. Did you get any kind of certificate of authenticity with it?

I like this answer the best.

 

[Edrof]

It's truncated, the grammar is off a little and without knowing the exact Yemeni region the sword originated from or the time period it's hard to be 100% certain but it can be interpreted as saying "Who dies today is safe from tomorrow's sin.", or near enough.

However, the grammar leads me to believe this isn't much of an antique, most likely produced after 1970. Did you get any kind of certificate of authenticity with it?

Very interesting! I find Middle Eastern and Indian weapons very difficult to date with true accuracy and it's sometimes all you can do to guess a century. This item was very cheap and is quite pretty so it's no loss if it is only vintage rather than antique. Studying online examples of similar daggars with the Mughal Dynasty birds-head pommel-style, it matches them quite well, but there are always 'modern' examples to throw you off!

Here's a £400 antique, for example:

Mine does appear to have traces of watering to the blade so that suggests its more likely to be old. More research needed!

It's a crude attempt at writing Persian script but not professionally engraved ( or is it etched?) & the lettering doesn't make any sense whatsoever either

It's neither etched nor engraved. I think the steel was cross-hatched with tiny scoring to allow a plate (including the lettering) to adhere to it better - all of that having now come away with the lettering still visible probably the original guide the maker put on.