Indian sword with strange markings for comment

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Victrix

King Christian IV purchased a large number of German dussägge to arm Norwegian farmers. It’s not impossible that some might have found their way to India. The blades sometimes look very similar, even some fullered ones. The sickle/eyelash marks are associated with Genoa but later likely copied by smiths elsewhere, like Styria in my example.

That is extremely well noted!!! and I had not actually thought of that particular vector into India for the well known 'sickle marks'. The Danish presence in India is not especially well known, but interestingly some very good specimens of Indian arms are in Danish collections and from these early periods. Even in our modern times, Denmark has been notably associated with Indian arms, in fact the venerable "The Indian Sword" (1967) was produced through the Danish Arms & Armor Society (printed by our own Jens Nordlund, who owns one of the foremost collection of tulwars and katars ).