Go on...show us your Choora!!

David R · 2nd November 2014, 01:07 PM

Here's my example, more of a Khyber Knife being 58cm long in total, but described as a Choora by Ian B at the Armouries. Bought a few years ago, before the recent involvement and so most likely dating to an earlier Imperial campaign. 19thC?

Gavin Nugent · 2nd November 2014, 01:38 PM

Certainly a Khyber knife David, it doesn't follow the form of the Choora despite some aspects having a shared similarity.

Gavin

ariel · 2nd November 2014, 04:24 PM

Thanks Gavin,
Good beginning of a database. The main problem is that it is likely to be Bukhara and Afghanistan.

Capt. Masalski saw manufacture of Central-Asian wootz in the 1850s if my memory is correct.

Any documented evidence of its production in Afganistan proper, especially around the Khyber Pass? Kabul or Jellalabad, as per Egerton?

ariel · 2nd November 2014, 04:27 PM

DavidR:
Can you show magnified pic? I can' t see wootz pattern.

David R · 2nd November 2014, 04:32 PM

ariel, I do not think this is wootz, more likely a folded steel.

Kurt · 2nd November 2014, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David R

ariel, I do not think this is wootz, more likely a folded steel.

I am of the same opinion!
Kurt

ariel · 4th November 2014, 01:50 AM

Ah so...
:-)

2nd November 2014, 01:07 PM	#1
David R Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,120	Here's my example, more of a Khyber Knife being 58cm long in total, but described as a Choora by Ian B at the Armouries. Bought a few years ago, before the recent involvement and so most likely dating to an earlier Imperial campaign. 19thC? Attached Images

2nd November 2014, 01:38 PM	#2
Gavin Nugent Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,818	Certainly a Khyber knife David, it doesn't follow the form of the Choora despite some aspects having a shared similarity. Gavin

2nd November 2014, 04:24 PM	#3
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Thanks Gavin, Good beginning of a database. The main problem is that it is likely to be Bukhara and Afghanistan. Capt. Masalski saw manufacture of Central-Asian wootz in the 1850s if my memory is correct. Any documented evidence of its production in Afganistan proper, especially around the Khyber Pass? Kabul or Jellalabad, as per Egerton?

2nd November 2014, 04:27 PM	#4
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	DavidR: Can you show magnified pic? I can' t see wootz pattern.

2nd November 2014, 04:32 PM	#5
David R Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,120	ariel, I do not think this is wootz, more likely a folded steel.

4th November 2014, 01:50 AM	#7
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Ah so... :-)