Hello,
Thank you for the comments,
It needed more informations about the sword:
an heavy sword weight 1080 grams
length 98cm, 103cm with scabbard
The blade fits good entirely in the scabbard ,
just the end of the the scabbard was really bad preserved as I wrote ( humidity...) I think there was a metal chape before...
the blade maybe was polished later when they did the engravings for the afghan sentence ?
I think end of 19th century for this sword is right,
the indian blade, don't really know ...
Thank you Jim about the Indian Urdu cartouche
About the hilt, maybe not too old but it is really finely crafted and of higher quality than average pulwar hilts I think,
I saw a few sword with all these delicate holes/perforations, One similar sold by Czern'ys, another from Mandarin Mansion, ( thank you for the pictures !)
( Inside there are too 'small 'stones'' inside who makes rattle sound,
I read it could be Mecca stones...)
I am the overcleaner
and remove rust from everypart ( too under the langets
),
some might say I wouldn't to and perhaps it has less value like that,
but I couldn't leave it like that: cf pictures ...
we can see that the blade was already in better conditions than the rest of the sword before my ''wash'' ,
that's what surprise me first too the blade was maybe polished later
( when they did the engravings for the afghan sentence ? If it's afghan... )