Help with the stamps please

ALEX · 26th June 2007, 12:47 PM

Jens,
First, thank you for sharing your research and creating a separate post with more information. Good idea and very well done too.

Stefan,
welcome to the Forum. Below I post more pictures of the blade. It is still in a sad shape, but it's much better than it was before:-)
I suspect this blade is a regular/standard tulwar blade, UNLESS the rare combination of two stamps makes it special:-)

Jens Nordlunde · 26th June 2007, 01:42 PM

Alex, thank you for the nice words, and thank you for the pictures, which adds to the size of the puzzle, as this blade had a shamshir hilt and not a tulwar hilt – just have a look at the form of the tang. Should I guess; then this is a shamshir made for a Hindu, due to the stamps, and this makes it a rare piece. To see one of the stamps is rare, but to see both stamps is even rarer. I asked a friend, who has seen more Indian blades than I will ever see. He did not know what the marks mean, but he said that he has seen the trisula about a dozen times, and the katar three to four times.

ALEX · 26th June 2007, 01:55 PM

Jens, thanks again for your comments. I think the blade was originally of a tulwar. Later it has been re-maked into a shamshir. The metal shamshir hilt core it crudely welded to the blade, so I think it is not an original hilt core.
I have several spare Indian steel hilts, so I think I'll make it a tulwar again:-)

Jim McDougall · 26th June 2007, 03:25 PM

Interesting ! Especially to see a new tang crudely welded to the blade.

spiral · 26th June 2007, 09:41 PM

Heres another one recently discused.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=trident

Ashoka Arts also recently had a spiecimien with the double stamps. now sold.

Spiral

dralin23 · 27th June 2007, 08:39 PM

hi all
i got thes one sword from ashoka arts withthe two stamps.
i send you in the next post the pictures from the blade.
it is also an deep stamp from an katar ans an trident.. i think it is nearby the same like these from alex.
stefan

dralin23 · 27th June 2007, 08:56 PM

i hope the pictures are good enough!!
stefan

26th June 2007, 12:47 PM	#1
ALEX Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 936	Jens, First, thank you for sharing your research and creating a separate post with more information. Good idea and very well done too. Stefan, welcome to the Forum. Below I post more pictures of the blade. It is still in a sad shape, but it's much better than it was before:-) I suspect this blade is a regular/standard tulwar blade, UNLESS the rare combination of two stamps makes it special:-) Attached Images

27th June 2007, 08:39 PM	#6
dralin23 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 204	blade stamps hi all i got thes one sword from ashoka arts withthe two stamps. i send you in the next post the pictures from the blade. it is also an deep stamp from an katar ans an trident.. i think it is nearby the same like these from alex. stefan

27th June 2007, 08:56 PM	#7
dralin23 Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 204	i hope the pictures are good enough!! stefan Attached Images

26th June 2007, 01:42 PM	#2
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Alex, thank you for the nice words, and thank you for the pictures, which adds to the size of the puzzle, as this blade had a shamshir hilt and not a tulwar hilt – just have a look at the form of the tang. Should I guess; then this is a shamshir made for a Hindu, due to the stamps, and this makes it a rare piece. To see one of the stamps is rare, but to see both stamps is even rarer. I asked a friend, who has seen more Indian blades than I will ever see. He did not know what the marks mean, but he said that he has seen the trisula about a dozen times, and the katar three to four times.

26th June 2007, 01:55 PM	#3
ALEX Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 936	Jens, thanks again for your comments. I think the blade was originally of a tulwar. Later it has been re-maked into a shamshir. The metal shamshir hilt core it crudely welded to the blade, so I think it is not an original hilt core. I have several spare Indian steel hilts, so I think I'll make it a tulwar again:-)

26th June 2007, 03:25 PM	#4
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,295	Interesting ! Especially to see a new tang crudely welded to the blade.

26th June 2007, 09:41 PM	#5
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	Heres another one recently discused. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=trident Ashoka Arts also recently had a spiecimien with the double stamps. now sold. Spiral