Interesting tulwar for comment

Valjhun · 4th June 2006, 02:58 PM

I bought that tulwar recently. I'm verry happy with it. It has a very nice european blade. Marked with a "D". The hilt is bronze. Perfectly balanced. An old one. Odd quillons.

Any comments?

Tim Simmons · 4th June 2006, 04:16 PM

Looks like that might be quite a nice original scabbard. Has someone as put a new bit on the pommel? it looks slightly out of character.

Lew · 4th June 2006, 04:30 PM

My guess is that it is a pulowar and not a tulwar due to the flattened quillons.
The hilt though seems a bit rough in the casting and the wing nut on the finale is a modern touch. The blade is most likely a 19th century European blade. I think this is a post 1948 melding of new and old parts probably done for some officer in the newly formed Pakistan army around 1950.

Lew

S.Al-Anizi · 4th June 2006, 05:55 PM

The hilt looks like a newly cast piece, the blade and scabbard both seem old though.

Valjhun · 4th June 2006, 06:17 PM

Well, I do not think that the hilt is a modern casting... The nut goes one by screw...

It is definetly no a pulowar wich has a different style of quillons - downturned dragon heads, wich isn't quite the case there, and the pommel of a pulwar would be different, as attached picture.

Rather an around of WWII official issue of some kind...

4th June 2006, 02:58 PM	#1
Valjhun Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 692	Interesting tulwar for comment I bought that tulwar recently. I'm verry happy with it. It has a very nice european blade. Marked with a "D". The hilt is bronze. Perfectly balanced. An old one. Odd quillons. Any comments? Attached Images

4th June 2006, 04:16 PM	#2
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,739	Looks like that might be quite a nice original scabbard. Has someone as put a new bit on the pommel? it looks slightly out of character.

4th June 2006, 04:30 PM	#3
Lew (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 3,191	My guess is that it is a pulowar and not a tulwar due to the flattened quillons. The hilt though seems a bit rough in the casting and the wing nut on the finale is a modern touch. The blade is most likely a 19th century European blade. I think this is a post 1948 melding of new and old parts probably done for some officer in the newly formed Pakistan army around 1950. Lew

4th June 2006, 05:55 PM	#4
S.Al-Anizi Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Arabia Posts: 278	The hilt looks like a newly cast piece, the blade and scabbard both seem old though.

4th June 2006, 06:17 PM	#5
Valjhun Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 692	Well, I do not think that the hilt is a modern casting... The nut goes one by screw... It is definetly no a pulowar wich has a different style of quillons - downturned dragon heads, wich isn't quite the case there, and the pommel of a pulwar would be different, as attached picture. Rather an around of WWII official issue of some kind...