The Metropolitan Museum has a large collection of Indo-Persian weapons, only a few are on display, many are available for viewing online. Finding these weapons in the museum data base is not easy, you have to use many different search terms to see them all. Having them available under one category makes studying them much easier.

I have edited the available images in order to clear them up and to bring out more details resulting in many new images not seen before. This is a fantastic and varied collection which has previously been hidden away from view, some images are in high resolution, click on them for close up views, (katars have a separate gallery).

Some of the weapons are not strictly Indo-Persian but I added them in for various reasons, many of the weapons that George Stone donated to the Met are presented here as well. While the majority of the weapons are knives / daggers there are some firearms, maces, axe, swords etc.

Indo-Persian weapons http://www.pinterest.com/worldantiques/indo-p...n-museum-/

Katars http://www.pinterest.com/worldantiques/katars...t-collect/

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There's a shamshir among those Indo-Persian weapons I encountered.
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