The exhibition oriental weapons "The Mortal Beauty" of private collections in Russia,

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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Eric/estcrh,
The Indians were trading with the Chinese long before the English knew how to reach India.

Your right of course but I do not remember seeing any Chinese weapons that looked to be influenced by Indian weapons, there may be some though, this Chinese sword is different, the pistol grip hilt looks very Indian to me, since it was supposedly Qianlong period which was 18th century I was thinking of more recent encounters between the Chinese and India which may have let to this influence.