The Kishangarh armoury mark

[Lew]

Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Yes Lew I could, but I fail to see, a good reason why I should, as the discussion quickly would be on the weapons, and not on my question asked, so I may show them in another thread, but not now.

Jens

The reason I asked to see the entire katar is to compare two styles of the same weapon from two different armouries Bikinar vs Kishangarh. Your question was I am wondering, why they did not remove the wax where the letters and numbers were supposed to be your question is not that clear to me but here is my opinion of the two different methods. I have only seen swords and katars with the dot matrix markings have not seen any examples from this armoury yet. Maybe when you are making a large number of swords you use the easiest or simplest technique to mark the swords in order to save time and money. Could they have made the mark by a spilling some hot wax on the blade applying a stamp waiting for the wax to cool and then removing the wax from around the letters this would leave the raised mark? If you used the opposite technique of applying a blob of wax and then scribing the letters in the wax adding the acid then removing the access wax it would not give you that 3D effect. Could just be the the first technique even though it maybe more envolved is just more artistically pleasing to the eye?


Lew