Help needed with makers mark on tulwar

Jim McDougall · 11th August 2019, 04:44 PM

Hi Randal, welcome and thank you for posting this query. In your note, the key word to the mark on your blade is 'similar'. As Jens has noted, the reason we ask for images of the entire weapon, or blade, is that it is necessary to have context to determine the possibility of originality or spurious use.

For example, we know that Toledo did not produce tulwar blades, nor sabre type blades used in them. If it is a tulwar (Indo Persian hilt) mounted with a straight blade then perhaps the potential for knowing the origin of the blade increases.

Toledo marks were used spuriously in Germany of course for many years after the industry in Toledo collapsed.

11th August 2019, 04:44 PM	#3
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,190	Hi Randal, welcome and thank you for posting this query. In your note, the key word to the mark on your blade is 'similar'. As Jens has noted, the reason we ask for images of the entire weapon, or blade, is that it is necessary to have context to determine the possibility of originality or spurious use. For example, we know that Toledo did not produce tulwar blades, nor sabre type blades used in them. If it is a tulwar (Indo Persian hilt) mounted with a straight blade then perhaps the potential for knowing the origin of the blade increases. Toledo marks were used spuriously in Germany of course for many years after the industry in Toledo collapsed.