mace

[manteris1]

hi all, this old mace has numbers and dots on the shaft, sorry for the bad pics, any help will help..................thanks..............jimmy

[estcrh]

Jimmy, possibly Indian but you really need to take some better photos of the designs, is the end of the shaft flared at all or is it the same diameter all the way to the end. Here is an Indian mace which looks similar.


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Various_Indian_weapons.jpg

[manteris1]

better pics but not good.................jimmy

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

hi all, this old mace has numbers and dots on the shaft, sorry for the bad pics, any help will help..................thanks..............jimmy


Salaams manteris1~ Please see the mace on post #50 (8th picture)at http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12134&page=2&pp=30 :shrug:

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

[manteris1]

thanks both of you...........................................jimm y

[estcrh]

Jimmy, if you can some how get clearer images it may be possible to identify your mace.

[manteris1]

hi all, i think this will work..................jimmy

[estcrh]

This image reminded me a lot of your mace, here is the description.

Indian shishpar (flanged mace), steel, eight flanged head, Sultanate or Mughal period, steel, 15th-16th century, 51.5 cm (20 1/4 in.), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Eric Shroeder, 2009.202.63 Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art.