Two katars

[Jens Nordlunde]

The dotted inscription on both sides of the side guards indicates that the katar at the top has been in the Bikaner armoury. The lower katar is marked with the Kishangarh armoury mark. That the katars are marked with the two armoury marks, means that they have been part of the weapons in the armoury, it does not necessarily mean that they were made there. They can have been, but they can also have been part of a looting, which means that they would have been made somewhere else, but I believe these to to be made where they were marked.