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Jens Nordlunde · 23rd December 2005, 04:19 PM

Hi Andy,
I was surprised to see that you have over 30 tulwars, that is quite a lot, and I doubt that many, if any at all, on the forum can beat that.
Cheap or expensive weapons mostly have the same characteristics, and when you want to study the weapon as a weapon, it is these characteristics, which are of interest.

Hi Jim,
So you also took the decoration of the hilt into consideration – I should have known it. Yes it is interesting to see such a decoration on a hilt from the Sind area, but on the other hand, it may not have been there from the start, and weapons travelled a lot earlier. Foreign blades are not unusual on Indian weapons, but this one is rather unusual, but like you said, even blades without hilts travelled a long way in those days.

23rd December 2005, 04:19 PM	#9
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	Hi Andy, I was surprised to see that you have over 30 tulwars, that is quite a lot, and I doubt that many, if any at all, on the forum can beat that. Cheap or expensive weapons mostly have the same characteristics, and when you want to study the weapon as a weapon, it is these characteristics, which are of interest. Hi Jim, So you also took the decoration of the hilt into consideration – I should have known it. Yes it is interesting to see such a decoration on a hilt from the Sind area, but on the other hand, it may not have been there from the start, and weapons travelled a lot earlier. Foreign blades are not unusual on Indian weapons, but this one is rather unusual, but like you said, even blades without hilts travelled a long way in those days.