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Bally555 6th March 2011 02:04 PM

Info on this unique (tulwar) blade please
 
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Can anyone help with the date and origins of this piece please( mughal hilt maybe?)

Also what is this blade called as i have only seen one like it and thats in the Wallace Collection, London.

Atlantia 6th March 2011 02:15 PM

It's very beautiful.

I have a silver hilted Tulwar with a standard shape blade of that kind of Wootz.
I believe that the blade is of Indian manufacture. I've not seen one of that shape before. I'm VERY jealous!

Bally555 6th March 2011 02:19 PM

Thank you for your response Atlantia lol, i do like this blade very much because of the rarity of it.

Gavin Nugent 6th March 2011 02:24 PM

This may help
 
Nice profile.

This may help you.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=kirach

Gav

Atlantia 6th March 2011 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bally555
Thank you for your response Atlantia lol, i do like this blade very much because of the rarity of it.


And the condition is magnificent! Very lucky :)

Ronald 7th March 2011 01:59 PM

Hello dear Forum-Members,

this sword is a typical "Nawaz Khani", probably from the Deccan. There is a very nice example in the Wallace Collection. Its blade shows the signature of Assaddulla Isfahani. For that reason it might be a falsificate, as I only know shamshirs made by him. Cameron-Stone also mentions that type.

With my kind regards,

Ronald

A.alnakkas 7th March 2011 02:04 PM

Beautiful piece, Congratulations :)

Off-topic: is such a sword tip effective?

Bally555 7th March 2011 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronald
Hello dear Forum-Members,

this sword is a typical "Nawaz Khani", probably from the Deccan. There is a very nice example in the Wallace Collection. Its blade shows the signature of Assaddulla Isfahani. For that reason it might be a falsificate, as I only know shamshirs made by him. Cameron-Stone also mentions that type.

With my kind regards,

Ronald

Thank you Ronald for the name of the blade.

tom hyle 9th March 2011 12:30 AM

Certainly it is effective. The shape of the concave "clip" is such as to bring the point back in line with the hilt, as far as I can tell on my computer screen. The edge bevel seems to become somewhat blunter/stronger/more axelike in the convexly curved tip area.
I had a 20th century Visayan sword with a blade shape a great deal like this...


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