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Jens Nordlunde · 27th July 2016, 08:46 PM

Well Ibrahim, I can say that I agree with you.
The names you 'give' the different hilts are from Pant, but who told you that he was wright?
I think it needs far more research before we can be sure, from where the different hilt types came. To this comes, that hilts were very often sold (exported) to other parts of India - undecorated. So it is not unlikely that you can find a 'Delhi' hilt, decorated and bought (by museums/collectors) from Deccan or elsewhere a century later than the hilt was made, or maybe a only a decade later.

Added later. The problem is, that we know far too little about these hilts, and out knowledge is based on unceartin information's.
I do wish that it had been otherwise, but I am afrid that we will have to make our own research. Many of these hilts are very close to each other in looks and none of us know if they really origins from Delhi.

27th July 2016, 08:46 PM	#35
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Well Ibrahim, I can say that I agree with you. The names you 'give' the different hilts are from Pant, but who told you that he was wright? I think it needs far more research before we can be sure, from where the different hilt types came. To this comes, that hilts were very often sold (exported) to other parts of India - undecorated. So it is not unlikely that you can find a 'Delhi' hilt, decorated and bought (by museums/collectors) from Deccan or elsewhere a century later than the hilt was made, or maybe a only a decade later. Added later. The problem is, that we know far too little about these hilts, and out knowledge is based on unceartin information's. I do wish that it had been otherwise, but I am afrid that we will have to make our own research. Many of these hilts are very close to each other in looks and none of us know if they really origins from Delhi. Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 27th July 2016 at 09:39 PM.