Thank you for the kind words Simon, actually Jens is by far the 'master at arms' of tulwars and katars, and I learned mostly from and with him over a good number of years. Again, I do appreciate your additional input on the shakudo.
Ian, thank you for the backup with the links and references on this topic.
Chris, pretty exciting to hear of your interest in British/Indian swords, and my first field of collecting (many many years ago) was British cavalry swords. Eventually I came into the fascinating area between these and those of the native cavalry units of the Raj, then the hybrids of tulwars with British blades and so on.
With this it was inevitable that I became enthralled with Indian arms themselves, but always completely intrigued by the forms made for the Indian units, such as tulwars made by MOLE etc.
It is interesting to know of your example of the P08, and I really would be interested to know more on it. I did not wish to divert the momentum on this thread on tulwars, so perhaps we could start a thread on swords of the Indian cavalry.....definitely a topic worthwhile of its own focus.
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