Subject: ทหารม้า cavalry
Culture: Siamese
Setting: Thonburi-Rattanakosin kingdom, Siam late 18th-early 19thc
Object: ดาบ saber
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Sword Probably Thai, 19th century The form of the kastane seems to have been transmitted over the trade routes to mainland south-east Asia. Although very close in form to the Sri Lankan swords, the dragon pommel and inlaid stones suggest that this is Thai."
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Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Sword (dha) Probably Thai, 19th century
The long, thin silver hilt of this dha, with its onion-shaped pommel,
marks it out as being of non-Burmese and probably Thai manufacture." ...
