Sword for comment
 

I had bought this sword a long time ago, really liked the workmanship and quality of it. It needed some cleaning and rust control, but non the less it is very sharp, I have cut tatami mats clean through with one strike. I know lots of you are going to start calling this a poluar, but don't. In Afghanistan there is no such name for any kind of sword. This style is sold under the name Shamshir e Safawi, however the only Safawid sword I have seen with down turned quilions is one belonging to Shah Is'mael Safawi (I'll include pic later) This one has a stamp with makers name or whatever, but I have not been able to make anything out of it, also has the xxxx which has purplexed me as to what it means. I looked through many swords when I was buying this and since I have not seen one with this kind of quality.Anyways enjoy this beautiful SWORD. :)

These are indeed wonderful fighting swords, I had a few myself and others here also own a number of variations.

Your sword show high quality aspects in the hilt and blade and nice to see the scabbard and suspension with it.

Mat cutting would be fun but these things would take the leg clean off a charging horse in reality!

I can however tell you, the blade in yours is of a type associated with these swords. Yours is now the third such blade seen in this type of hilt.

This one was my favorite by far, now with a friend locally.

Gav

LOL, whats in a name?
I had a dealer email me to say he'd got a nice 'pulover' to show me!!
I think I asked if he had any cardigans?

AJ, it's a nice one mate. Congrats.

That is indeed one beutiful sword! However, I am still calling it a pulowar :p

Gav, I like the hilt on that sword, very nice.
thanks guys, here is that other sword i was talking about.

Pulokhanda anyone? Simply breathatking.

Nope, just a persian sword with an indian blade :P

AJ jan, thanks for sharing the swords!

Nice sword. One thing to always check with a handle like this with this type of ribbing is whether or not the grip is wootz. Some of these will etch out with a nice wootz pattern which would take it up a notch in the nicety category.

This time at home I did not have much time to see if the handle is wootz or not, but thanks for the idea, I'll look into that next time I am home.

Nice sword you have, congratulations.
Hi Rick, you are right, quite a number of these hilts are wootz.
Khorasan was a centre for production of very fine and dark wootz, so no wonder that many of these hilts are made of wootz.
Jens