Indian sword with strange markings for comment

[Victrix]

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.

Records show hundreds of dussägge produced in Styria, Austria during the Ottoman wars. Some were stored in the armoury in Graz and some were probably distributed to the local farmers to defend themselves (bauernwehr) against frequent Ottoman irregular raids during which thousands of people were abducted.

Not that many dussägge remain in the region which raises the possibility that they may have been exported as military surplus to places like Denmark, but perhaps also India which would have appreciated the wide curved blades.