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Post by marw on Jul 7, 2023 11:29:04 GMT
Can someone kindly comment on the origins of this sword? It is advertised as coming from Indonesia. Attachments:
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Post by treeslicer on Jul 7, 2023 14:37:04 GMT
Can someone kindly comment on the origins of this sword? It is advertised as coming from Indonesia. IMHO, the hilt is emphatically Indian, probably British Raj period, whatever the blade is. If you would be so kind as to give us a link to the offering, somebody here might be able to do more with it. I'll note that Malaysia, which was once British, borders Indonesia.
A lot would depend on what they are asking for it.
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Post by JonSchwertFechter on Jul 7, 2023 15:03:46 GMT
It looks to be a Pulwar or similar
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Sword ID
Jul 7, 2023 22:41:26 GMT
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Post by randomnobody on Jul 7, 2023 22:41:26 GMT
Piso podang, Indonesia. Very similar to Indian talwar in silhouette, but often the blades are very different. Easiest tell is the guard.
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Post by treeslicer on Jul 7, 2023 23:11:04 GMT
Piso podang, Indonesia. Very similar to Indian talwar in silhouette, but often the blades are very different. Easiest tell is the guard. Thank you!!!!!
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Post by marw on Jul 8, 2023 11:38:12 GMT
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Post by yelman on Jul 9, 2023 0:41:47 GMT
It looks to be a Pulwar or similar Looks to me like a cross between an Afghan pulwar and an Indian tulwar. The bowl shaped pommel looks Afghan, but if it were a pulwar, the quillons should be pointing downward. The straight quillons are tulwar, but the pommel then should be flat and disc shaped. Odd.
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Post by treeslicer on Jul 9, 2023 2:42:45 GMT
It looks to be a Pulwar or similar Looks to me like a cross between an Afghan pulwar and an Indian tulwar. The bowl shaped pommel looks Afghan, but if it were a pulwar, the quillons should be pointing downward. The straight quillons are tulwar, but the pommel then should be flat and disc shaped. Odd. No, it's a recorded and recognized sword type used by the Batak tribal groups of Sumatra, in Indonesia. Once randomnobody gave us a name for it, I went and looked it up. The details of hilt and blade are somewhat variable between examples, but the general type is what the OP posted, or the illustration below. I suspect that the Batak got the tulwar design idea via the Brits in Singapore during the 1800's, though the word "pedang" is a corruption of the Portuguese "espada".
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Post by yelman on Jul 10, 2023 21:50:26 GMT
Interesting. Yet again another example how sword styles evolve and move between cultures.
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