Vietnam or Cambodia?

[PUFF]

A good example of Vietnamese 's sword 's "Pra-Seang-Dahb-Viet", a diplomatic item from Vietnamese 's ruler during king Rama 1st era (early 19th cent). The blade 's 4th one from the top.

[PUFF]

By the way, does your lotus ferrule have 12 petals ?

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by PUFF

By the way, does your lotus ferrule have 12 petals ?

Don't tease us, Man! What's the significance of this?

[Andrew]

Here's the one I mentioned above:








Puff, can you describe the the other three swords in that display you posted? What's the text say? Is that a double-edged "leaf" blade, like the one in the Royal regalia?

[PUFF]

Originally Posted by Andrew

Don't tease us, Man! What's the significance of this?

Calm down, my friend, I do not actually know the significance of the number. It 's just typical feature for many of old lotus-ferrule Dahb we have. There are hypothesis on this, of course.

The similar construct 's also occure in SEA religious architectures (something with Khmer 's believe). We have a lotus ferrule example with obvious 12-corner construct, similar to 12-corner Stupa. My hypothesis is that 12-petal lotus ferrule is an older form and lotus with more petals has been evolved over time. I just wonder if the same construct was found as far as Vietnam, where Chinese influence 's stronger than Khmer 's



This is another of example of the later lotus ferrule. The petals are 6+6 and there are only shallow 6 marks on its guard.IMO Dahb 's ferrule 's has been seriously evolved during mid-late Ayuthaya era.


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And yes... those blades are royal's and one of them 's leaf-shape blade (recon. of a royal blade from Ayuthaya period).