EMPIRE OTTOMAN, XIXème siècle Composite sword. Indo-Persian Pulwar iron hilt with two curved quillons in lotus flower and two central mumps in darts. Fuse made of horn plates and various engraved metals, with domed rivets and curved brass pommel engraved with flowers, Saïf type. The curved, two-edged, flat-backed, curved Kilidj-type blade with a flat back and then cutting at the tip, decorated with engraved Arabic inscriptions in gold; and formerly engraved with scrolls, on the first quarter of one face. It has a wooden core sheath, sheathed in black leather, and two bracelets with bosses, a long cap (open at the top) and a bouterolle in niello iron with radiating or frieze motifs. Blade length: approx. 81.5 cm. - Total length: 92.7 cm. Copper filigree, welded, damaged. Bowl and a ring of the scabbard, missing; cracks; screed to be reattached. Scabbard unsuitable for the blade. Oxidation, wear and shocks on the whole.