the bikaner armoury

Jens Nordlunde · 10th November 2015, 04:58 PM

Yes the show of weapons is really fascinating - thanks for showing the pictures.

Richard, the interesting thing is - how many of the weapons came from Deccan?
It is known that they in the north, had great artists doing this kind of iron work, but it is also known that Anup Singh after the fall of Adoni send a lot of weapons to Bikaner. To this comes that he had, for years, campaigned in Deccan, so many of the weapons sent home could have come from other places than from Adoni.
We will need an expert on Deccani weapons to go to Bikaner, to have a look at the weapons to tell us what is what.

dralin23 · 11th November 2015, 07:44 PM

here are some views in the armoury

dralin23 · 11th November 2015, 07:47 PM

..wonderfull steelwork...

dralin23 · 11th November 2015, 07:56 PM

here are some pictures from the bikaner katars

estcrh · 11th November 2015, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by dralin23

here are some pictures from the bikaner katars

Any chance of you posting a link to larger sized images? They really deserve to be viewed in full size.

Jens Nordlunde · 11th November 2015, 08:46 PM

Yes the steel work is fantastic, and we do know that at least some of the weapons come from Deccan or from south India - but does all of them come from there??
Someone once wrote, that they in the north, only started to use gold and silver for decoration rather late, as they had the steel work. Was it Goetz???

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dralin23 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 210	some maces ..wonderfull steelwork... Attached Images

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Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Yes the steel work is fantastic, and we do know that at least some of the weapons come from Deccan or from south India - but does all of them come from there?? Someone once wrote, that they in the north, only started to use gold and silver for decoration rather late, as they had the steel work. Was it Goetz??? Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 11th November 2015 at 09:40 PM.

10th November 2015, 04:58 PM	#1
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Yes the show of weapons is really fascinating - thanks for showing the pictures. Richard, the interesting thing is - how many of the weapons came from Deccan? It is known that they in the north, had great artists doing this kind of iron work, but it is also known that Anup Singh after the fall of Adoni send a lot of weapons to Bikaner. To this comes that he had, for years, campaigned in Deccan, so many of the weapons sent home could have come from other places than from Adoni. We will need an expert on Deccani weapons to go to Bikaner, to have a look at the weapons to tell us what is what.