STRANGE WEAPON??

[BANDOOK]

COULD SOME ONE TELL ME WHAT THIS ANCIENT WEAPON IS,ITS IN INDIA AND THEY WANTED MY THOUGHTS,CHEERS

[Kubur]

Hi Rajesh,

It's super cool.
It looks like a a combined weapon, a sword and a matchlock gun.
But that's it, I know nothing about Indian weapons.

Best,
Kubur

[BANDOOK]

THANKS KUBUR GOOD OBSERVATION ,APPRECIATED

[kahnjar1]

I agree with KUBUR. Combination sword/matchlock.
I have surfed thru my books on Indian weapons but the only "combination" weapons shown appear to be either axes and guns, or knives and guns.
Stu

[kronckew]

tipu sultan attacked the brits with metal tubed rockets that used old sword blades as the 'stabilizing' tail as well as the active weapon. apparently on impact they spun around wildly and did a great amount of damage.

could the tube be used to attach to a rocket's tail?

[trenchwarfare]

Page 33 of Louis Winant's "Firearms Curiosa" shows a similar weapon, but percussion. It is either a pistol in the form of a Dha, or a Dha in the form of a pistol. I have actually seen one of these. A guy used to bring one to the Dallas Militaria Show. He referred to it as a Malay pirate pistol.

[Raf]

A while ago I posted this barrel in the European forum. It had been faked up as a European matchlock so the pan and cover are modern. The muzzle looked Indian but the strange lump to the breech and the apparent absence of an original flashpan isnt something normally seen on Indian matchlocks. I posted it because I thought the breech might have originally terminated in a spike or socket , as in very early European hand guns , or if it was Indian could be evidence that the very earliest Indian matchlocks were tiller guns. That is barrels terminating in a long forged spike . The example above suggests an alternative explanation ; that it is the remains of a combination weapon, in view of the length of the barrel possibly an axe.