Description:

South Asia, India, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An elegant, curved, carbon steel sword or sabre known as a talwar (also spelled talwaar and tulwar) from India - the name talwar deriving from a Sanskrit word that means "one-edged sword". This talwar has a characteristically long curved blade with a single edge, a pointed tip, a disk hilt, no knuckle bow, and extensive zoomorphic hunting motifs adorning the blade. From the hilt, the iconography includes: an elephant, a horse, a tiger, a wild boar, a pair of horned rams charging one another, an elephant wrapping its trunk around a tiger, a valiantly charging horse and rider, a fierce tiger opposing an ox, another tiger attacking a wild boar, and a fleeing hare. Size: 4.25" W x 35" H (10.8 cm x 88.9 cm); (blade): 30" L (76.2 cm)

Provenance: ex Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA acquired before 2000

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#158636

  • Condition: Very slight bending to outer half of blade, with minor abrasions to blade and handle, otherwise intact and excellent. Wonderful preservation to zoomorphic motifs.

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