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Here is a tulwar from the Kishanghar armoury in Rajasthan. It is special be course of the ‘pearls’ along the edges of the hilt, and be course of the deep and very distinct armoury mark and the serrated back of the blade. Usually they are not made very deep, and not very destinct either.
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I like it: very restraint style, noble and elegant.
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A very *nice* sword, thanks for sharing
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Beautiful for its elegance, yet business-like, nature.
Lovely find!! |
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Nice indeed. Is it damascus blade, or have you tried to test-etch it?
Also, I just finished restoring two tulwars. Both have pattern-weld blades. I'll post the pictures soon. |
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No, I have not tried to etch it yet, but I will try it, when I feel I have the time – being on pension can be rather time consuming
![]() It will be nice to see your tulwars ![]() Here is what most Kishangarh armoury marks look like. I really wonder why they made the marks so sloppy. It would have been easier/faster to remove the wax where the letters/numbers were to be and start etching, but they removed the wax around the letters/numbers, and in a rather careless way at that, unless the army just had come home with 25.000 ‘new’ swords and daggers to be marked, before they entered the armoury. Even a stamp would have been a lot faster and easier – although the number would fail – so why etching? Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 2nd May 2007 at 04:47 PM. |
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Sorry - here is the mark.
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why carve it of wax use a wax pencil or crayon write out what you want. mix the acid with inate product to make a slurry or put it straight on and use the wax pencil to put a quick dam around it. quick and dirty. I suspect a slurry would be the easiest. there is a product on the market called peel away main ingediant as I remember is methal chloride. It comes in a putty and would do the job. Sure there was something similar in the areas
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Here are the pictures. The top one is very thick with heavy, chiseled on both sides, blade. Note the eyelashes mark in the carved part of the blade. The second is thin, light and very well balanced. Both exhibit pattern weld Damascus (after restoration. The blade of the second tulwar was in very bad condition, and seems quite old). I also notice a slightly razed yelmen on both blades. I'd appreciate any observations/comments on these tulwars. |
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Alex
Nice pair of tulwars you have, with nice Indian blades as well. Have you had the text on the blade translated? What does the top of the disc look like? Where are the eye lashes? |
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