Woops! Kind of forgot about my offer from earlier. Oh well, better late than never! Now, these are more properly a compendium of cool and weird weapons and armor, rather than just weird, but I'm sure you won't mind. I'll include brief descriptions where I feel necessary. Source: my tags from **** I follow.
Armor:
Weapons:
^A spring-loaded spear with four flintlock pistols
Katar with a pair of pistols, depicting Shiva and Kali
A particularly multifunctional axe with a gun in the handle as well as a removable dagger.
Similar to the above, but no pistol.
This one blew me away, perhaps the most spectacularly ornamented weapon of all time. A ceremonial sword made for the Maharaja of Jaipur, every gem you see on the sword and the scabbard is a diamond, with a total count of more than 2,000 carats, some gems being up to 36 carats individually. This one warrants more up close pictures:
I don't even know, dude.
Chinese hook swords (Gou).
A truly beautiful Sri Lankan dagger.
An amazing Mughal shamshir sword with a huge handle of pure, black jade.
Another shamshir of black steel and gilted designs along the blade.
An engraved Khanda sword.
A grand presentation sword from the Versailles swordsmiths.
An elegant rapier from the Elector of Saxony recalling Chinese blue and white porcelains.
A rare Scythian blade.
A Malay Rudus.
Indian Moplah.
Indian/Afghan Pulouar, with truly beautiful waving in the blade, an amazing trick given the already extreme curvature of the sword.
A brutal forked Tulwar.
Probably the most radical curve I've ever seen in a sword. Tatar origin.
Another product of the endlessly talented (and wealthy) Mughal patrons and their swordsmiths, this thing is covered in hundreds of tiny rubies inset in gold. More pictures of the details:
And probably the most insane looking Tulwar I've ever seen. I swear Indian smiths don't give a ****, they'll make fantasy swords if they want to.
A beautiful European blade from the Napoleonic Wars with one of the most lovely examples of bluing the steel I've ever seen.
A rare form of sword from the Deccan, very distinct rounded blade near the base, which is very sharp, made of Damascus or very fine crystalline Wootz steel.
Haha **** it.
Emperor Yongle's sword, from the Ming Dynasty. Those eyes are uncanny.
Prussian sabre.
An Ottoman Turkish sword of almost unparalleled beauty. I admit I had forgotten about this one, and tears came to my eyes upon seeing it again.
The same, with the gorgeous celadon-blue jade hilt.
That's all from my swords and armor tags that I felt were worth posting. I could do a whole new post of this length with just the daggers, particularly from India and Persia. The wealth and craftsmanship that went into their daggers is something not of this world. It's incredible to thing humanity made such objects in some of the cases.
Armor:
Weapons:
That's all from my swords and armor tags that I felt were worth posting. I could do a whole new post of this length with just the daggers, particularly from India and Persia. The wealth and craftsmanship that went into their daggers is something not of this world. It's incredible to thing humanity made such objects in some of the cases.