Two yatagan sabers, Ottoman Empire, 19th century Single-edged curved steel sabers with large lug handles. The first, with a blade inlaid with silver scrolls, engraved with an inscription, a stylized tughra and the first name Ahmad, and molded and engraved at the heel with a floral design continuing onto the tang of the wooden handle. The second has a blade stamped with a maker's stamp, the brass heel and guard leading to a horn handle with metal tang and nailed with three rivets. Wooden scabbards fitted with a suspension ring and trimmed with black leather and metal plates decorated with braided friezes and a rosette on the upper trim of the first, with geometric decoration on the second. Lengths without scabbard: 74.4 and 70 cm; with scabbard: 77.2 and 73.8 cm Minor accidents, oxidation on the blades, wear on the scabbards, some welding on the tang of the first.