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Old 14th July 2015, 07:56 AM   #1
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Default STRANGE WEAPON??

COULD SOME ONE TELL ME WHAT THIS ANCIENT WEAPON IS,ITS IN INDIA AND THEY WANTED MY THOUGHTS,CHEERS
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Old 14th July 2015, 09:15 AM   #2
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Hi Rajesh,

It's super cool.
It looks like a a combined weapon, a sword and a matchlock gun.
But that's it, I know nothing about Indian weapons.

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Old 14th July 2015, 09:32 AM   #3
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THANKS KUBUR GOOD OBSERVATION ,APPRECIATED
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Old 14th July 2015, 08:37 PM   #4
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I agree with KUBUR. Combination sword/matchlock.
I have surfed thru my books on Indian weapons but the only "combination" weapons shown appear to be either axes and guns, or knives and guns.
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Old 14th July 2015, 11:44 PM   #5
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tipu sultan attacked the brits with metal tubed rockets that used old sword blades as the 'stabilizing' tail as well as the active weapon. apparently on impact they spun around wildly and did a great amount of damage.

could the tube be used to attach to a rocket's tail?
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Old 16th July 2015, 03:52 PM   #6
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Page 33 of Louis Winant's "Firearms Curiosa" shows a similar weapon, but percussion. It is either a pistol in the form of a Dha, or a Dha in the form of a pistol. I have actually seen one of these. A guy used to bring one to the Dallas Militaria Show. He referred to it as a Malay pirate pistol.
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Old 17th July 2015, 09:35 AM   #7
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A while ago I posted this barrel in the European forum. It had been faked up as a European matchlock so the pan and cover are modern. The muzzle looked Indian but the strange lump to the breech and the apparent absence of an original flashpan isnt something normally seen on Indian matchlocks. I posted it because I thought the breech might have originally terminated in a spike or socket , as in very early European hand guns , or if it was Indian could be evidence that the very earliest Indian matchlocks were tiller guns. That is barrels terminating in a long forged spike . The example above suggests an alternative explanation ; that it is the remains of a combination weapon, in view of the length of the barrel possibly an axe.
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