Showing posts with label Ottoman tamga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ottoman tamga. Show all posts

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Ottoman tamgas - mark of the Sultan armories



Salve,
At McGill University Library, Montreal Quebec, they have this very interesting journal: Livrust Kammaren - Journal of the Royal Armoury. In the volume 17 from 1985 I found an interesting article on Eastern helmet - cicak or szyszak (shishak). I cannot read Swedish but I saw the photos, drawings etc,  and thus I copied some of the tamgas associated with the Istanbul/Constantinople Ottoman Sultan Armouries of the XVI-XVII centuries
-    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamga
I hope my picture speaks for itself

 and the  Ottoman armored kapikulu sipahi armor for horse and rider