Vasily Vereshchagin "Indian poem"

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Originally Posted by Emanuel

Beautiful!!

I know nothing about these swords. Any corelation between the brittleness of the handle scale material and the size/number of rivets?

I imagine it would be harder to drill the larger rivet holes in more brittle material like jade, agate and turqoise, than in softer material like wood, horn and ivory. Hence the use of multiple thinner pins/rivets.

Absolutely, Emmanuel.
If the handle of horn or wood - often large rivets. If the handle of stone or bone - small rivets.
But the main thing is the words Torben Flindt, who for some reason sometimes lead to misunderstanding that: "When wood or horn were used, the gripshells were held together by three to five rather large iron rivets whose size may be regarded as a Bukharan characteristic" while that seems not always exclusively the case.