Good or bad, old or new, this Rajput saber is impressive ... Expensive too but not a bad toy, looks pretty solid and it has all the fascinating talwar elements with perhaps the lack of
paraj (the knuckle guard). I can even smell the spicy wood aroma of that wood behind the red velvet. And that wootz alone ... hmmm ... worth more than all the gold of the koftigiri to me....
What I like the most about it, I guess, is the fact that is so darn pure and Hindustani, like an ethnic landmark... Next Christmas, if any big, jolly red thing comes to me it better be a sword like that
