My first Tulwar

[Emanuel]

Hi Fernando,

The figure of five hundred thousand pieces is given by Antonio Conceicao on the link you provided . How many of these are weapons is open to debate I guess, but I assume Mr. Daenhardt would need some sort of warehouse besides his mannor to store them adequately.

Ariel, thanks for posting the gaddara pics. The sword immediately brought to mind the sabre attributed to Charlemagne.
Interesting that gaddara sounds a lot like qaddara, albeit a completely different sword form.

I don't want to hijack the thread but speaking of foreign influences, what we call a firangi is, according to E. Jaiwant Paul, called so only when a trade blade is involved. Otherwise it is called a dhup or alternatively a sukhela (Arms and Armour: Traditional Weapons of India, p.56)

Emanuel

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Manolo

Hi Fernando,

The figure of five hundred thousand pieces is given by Antonio Conceicao on the link you provided . How many of these are weapons is open to debate I guess, but I assume Mr. Daenhardt would need some sort of warehouse besides his mannor to store them adequately.

Emanuel

Hi Emanuel
I have passed the link with no other intention than showing the only material plubished in the net with an aproach to Rainer Daehnhardt's collection. He seems not to worry to advance with some material himself, or even invite others to do it for him. I didn't even mind about the 500 000 pieces allusion, as i would never subscribe it, unless an extraordinary interpretation was added to support such aparently absurd figure. Otherwise and to put it elegantly, i would say this was a misprint.
I don't even know if Antonio noticed this, and or if has an explanation to that. Naturaly he doesn't even know i am using the link in this context, but it is published and has free access.
Some time ago i was talking to Daenhardt's shop senior employee about his collection universe, and she mentioned some figure where the term thousand was aplicable. I just don't remember how many thousands she mentioned, but surely not five hundred of them, i would say.
I think he might have some supporting storage facilities. Last time i have been there, he spoke about a house he had with large weapons quantities, which during the revolution period the left wing government wanted to nationalize, issuing a requisition for the house and the pieces. He has appealed against that measure and all he could get was to be paid for both house and collection, but he had to let them go. Maybe he has other facilities, i wouldn't be surprised.
Remember however that a great collection of manuscripts, maps, portolanos and that kind of stuff easily ascends to large amounts and doesn't require that much space to store, as relatively easy to stack in large numbers.
... in a consensual expression, of course.
Best regards
fernando