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Jens Nordlunde · 6th February 2016, 02:00 PM

If you look at dagger no 5 I find a few things quite strange.
The author(s) have forgotten that there is also gold on the blade, and they give three references to museums. One would assume that the references were to daggers alike, but they are not, they refer to daggers with pistol hilts, but of different material and different decoration, and that is of little interest in this connection.
What is of interest is the blade. Straight double edged blade decorated in silver and gold in floral motif. In all the years I have collected I have only seen four of these blades. One in this book, there is one in the MET, there is one in the Gugong Museum in Beijing and one in a privat collection.
When I, in all the years I have been collecting, have only seen four of these blades, I would say that they are rare, but I have seen a lot of pistol shaped jade hilt in the same time.

A pity that the inscriptions on nos 51, 60 and 69 have not been translated, and it would have been interesting to know if nos 51 and 69 have an inscription on both sides of the blade.
No 69 could be from Bundi so the question mark is well placed, but nos 70 and 71 are from Bundi, so there would be no need for a question mark.

Katars nos 53, 54 and 57 are garsoe katars from Sind.

I have not read it all yet, but so far I enjoy the pictures.

6th February 2016, 02:00 PM	#56
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	If you look at dagger no 5 I find a few things quite strange. The author(s) have forgotten that there is also gold on the blade, and they give three references to museums. One would assume that the references were to daggers alike, but they are not, they refer to daggers with pistol hilts, but of different material and different decoration, and that is of little interest in this connection. What is of interest is the blade. Straight double edged blade decorated in silver and gold in floral motif. In all the years I have collected I have only seen four of these blades. One in this book, there is one in the MET, there is one in the Gugong Museum in Beijing and one in a privat collection. When I, in all the years I have been collecting, have only seen four of these blades, I would say that they are rare, but I have seen a lot of pistol shaped jade hilt in the same time. A pity that the inscriptions on nos 51, 60 and 69 have not been translated, and it would have been interesting to know if nos 51 and 69 have an inscription on both sides of the blade. No 69 could be from Bundi so the question mark is well placed, but nos 70 and 71 are from Bundi, so there would be no need for a question mark. Katars nos 53, 54 and 57 are garsoe katars from Sind. I have not read it all yet, but so far I enjoy the pictures. Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 6th February 2016 at 08:52 PM.