Albanian yatagan in the Musee barrois
1800
A nineteenth-century Albanian yatagan with damascened metal, ivory and semi-precious stones, held in the Musee barrois in France. Arms of this quality were made in the workshops of Prizren and Shkoder under Ottoman rule.
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