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30th April 2012, 05:00 AM
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Wow. Thanks for sharing!
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30th April 2012, 06:15 AM
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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Glad you like the show
 Yes many of these blades were indeed very beautiful wootz. It was too hard to photograph the patterns though. To its credit the display room did have an information poster about "watered steel". I also thought it a good thing that they presented the sword typologies/nomenclature. One interesting thing concerning the karud/pesh-kabz with quartz handle - notice there is no tang, the blade simply attached at the top of the handle. Obviously not meant for use, despite the T-spine blade. I remember seeing similar daggers with ivory hilts and stub tangs. I thought the huge khukri blade with khanda hilt very interesting, and the monstrous zulfikar blades are pretty cool. A very nice collection overall. Bhushan, sure thing! I'll be in touch. E |
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30th April 2012, 08:28 AM
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Wow! What an amazing collection, Thank you Emmanuel for taking the time to do this.
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30th April 2012, 08:26 PM
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Awesome! It's like Disney Land for Adults!!!
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1st May 2012, 03:36 PM
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Location: Nashville
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Beautiful items thanks for taking the pictures and sharing them.
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1st May 2012, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Kuwait
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Very nice! thanks Emanuel!
One of the swords with cartouches has a date... 932 Hijri! nice. |
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1st May 2012, 04:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland, USA
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WOW! Fascinating post - you are most fortunate to have enjoyed this in person!
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