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Valjhun 4th June 2006 02:58 PM

Interesting tulwar for comment
 
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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...


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