the curved watered steel blade of kilij type with gold overlay comprising inscriptions in cartouches and foliate scrolls, the leather scabbard with chape decorated ensuite to the blade, with further gilt-metal mounts and suspension loops and later European hilt

inscriptions

The inscriptions bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚear the name of Sharif Osman Pasha, the Ottoman Governor of Bosnia, who lived in the 19th century. The blade is 18th or 19th century (the date of 738 AH/1337 AD is spurious). There are further quite crude inscriptions with the names either Selim ibn Sulayman or Sulayman ibn Selim, and further texts in Turkish.