Indian Tulwar: important?

[Jens Nordlunde]

Ariel,

I believe this hilt type is quite a bit older than 16th to 17th century, but so far I have to prove it J.

To prove it would take quite a lot of research, and for the moment I am engaged in some other research, and then follows another one, and another one.

Although I have stopped to work, I do sometimes wonder from where I get the time.

Jens