European blades in India

dralin23 · 24th March 2016, 09:26 PM

hi there,
sorry tho the late raplay, but i was the last some days to busy to visit the threads in the forum.
yes, i think also that these armbands are an later aditional feature. these bands was made from silver and i think also that they should give the upperarm more stiffnes when these katar was used in the fight.
the length of these blade is 80cm , and the wide of the blade before the hilt is 34 mm.
i was also searching for more informations about the knecht family.
i found very different informations about the time of their working.
the name "knegt" is an older example of the name "Knecht" . the name "Knecht"
is more modern.
as i wrote, i was looking in the www. and also in the book from stafan Kinman about european makers of edged weapons and their marks. i found no one exampel from an blade with the name "Knegt".
i was asking directly in the "Solingen Swordmuseum" as i hope that i found something more informations about the maker from these blade there.
the answer was that these kind of solingen stamp with the anchor was made untill the 17.th.ct. and the name knegt is an indicate that it was made from one member of the knecht family.
i hope i will find sometime an other exampel with an identic mark.
i´m happy about it!! it is now one of my hairloms in the collection.

24th March 2016, 09:26 PM	#11
dralin23 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 204	hi there, sorry tho the late raplay, but i was the last some days to busy to visit the threads in the forum. yes, i think also that these armbands are an later aditional feature. these bands was made from silver and i think also that they should give the upperarm more stiffnes when these katar was used in the fight. the length of these blade is 80cm , and the wide of the blade before the hilt is 34 mm. i was also searching for more informations about the knecht family. i found very different informations about the time of their working. the name "knegt" is an older example of the name "Knecht" . the name "Knecht" is more modern. as i wrote, i was looking in the www. and also in the book from stafan Kinman about european makers of edged weapons and their marks. i found no one exampel from an blade with the name "Knegt". i was asking directly in the "Solingen Swordmuseum" as i hope that i found something more informations about the maker from these blade there. the answer was that these kind of solingen stamp with the anchor was made untill the 17.th.ct. and the name knegt is an indicate that it was made from one member of the knecht family. i hope i will find sometime an other exampel with an identic mark. i´m happy about it!! it is now one of my hairloms in the collection.