my latest piece
 

would like to share with you my joy yet! my latest piece from yesterday.
pretty good Chillanum.
welcome any information
greeting Chregu

Nice piece. I have never seen a scabbard for these. Great thing to have.

An exceptional piece Chegru.
A light clean with the finest wire wool and some oil (avoiding the koftgari) would be my choice. Wootz is a possibility. A very fine quality piece in any event!
I'm rather jealous ;)

Greetings Chregu,

I am impressed with the elegance of your dagger. The photo seems to suggest that the steel blade is one with the apparently cast iron hilt. The joining of the two pieces is very well done. I am always amazed that early smiths could produce items seemingly impossible to accomplish without a drop forge. It often requires a good dose of "engineering empathy" to try to figure out, "how did they do that?". Other examples of this style shown on the net are easier to solve.

Thanks for sharing
Ed

Hi Chregu
I will demonstrate some erudition .... :p
by copying what I found in my documentation ... ;)
this type of weapon is far from my field of investigation

according with my book "Armes et armures traditionnelles de l'Inde - E. Jaiwant Paul"
Chilanum blade's is sometimes decorated de "Ganga-Jamuna,
that mean, a decor of "koftgari" in gold or silver (yours, looks like silver)
its origin it's not clear; should be ... "Marathas or Nepalese"

other book; "Islamic Weapons - Anthony C. Tirri"
Chilanum is a typical Indian dagger with a double-edged recurved blade.
This dagger has a hilt, and hand-guard, of similar size and shape, and occasionally has a knuckle guard.
This was a favorite dagger of the Marathas of West/Central India.
The blades often have multiple fullers and are occasionally bifurcated. (end of citation)

no more ... no less :shrug:

very nice dagger, very elegant, and with a beautiful blade,
you are a lucky guy to have it with his scabbard, seems very rare

à +

Dom

hello together
Thank you for your reply. have very little time in the moment, but I'll report back when I have restored the piece.
Thanks for your help.
Chregu