Indian sword with strange markings for comment

[ariel]

Originally Posted by Drabant1701

Found it!
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=197808#p

That tegha is spectacular I would not mind that on my wall

Wait in line, old son! :-)

[Victrix]

Blades show an interesting similarity with 16thC Styrian dusägge sabres. The Indian ones seem slightly more curved. Also some of the fullers are similar to dussägge in some cases.

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Victrix

Blades show an interesting similarity with 16thC Styrian dusägge sabres. The Indian ones seem slightly more curved. Also some of the fullers are similar to dussägge in some cases.

One cannot help but wonder if there a connection between those dusagge blades and these heavy bladed Indian 'tegha'. Note the 'sickle marks' on the blade of the dusagge and consider how often copies of these marks occur on Indian blades.

[psingh123]

i also notice a similar umbrella type sign on a sikh sword. here is the link: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15335/lot/544/

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

One cannot help but wonder if there a connection between those dusagge blades and these heavy bladed Indian 'tegha'. Note the 'sickle marks' on the blade of the dusagge and consider how often copies of these marks occur on Indian blades.

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.

[Jim McDougall]

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.

That is extremely well noted!!! and I had not actually thought of that particular vector into India for the well known 'sickle marks'. The Danish presence in India is not especially well known, but interestingly some very good specimens of Indian arms are in Danish collections and from these early periods. Even in our modern times, Denmark has been notably associated with Indian arms, in fact the venerable "The Indian Sword" (1967) was produced through the Danish Arms & Armor Society (printed by our own Jens Nordlund, who owns one of the foremost collection of tulwars and katars ).

[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.