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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [January, 1910. 



Second Division. 



Styles with a Knife edge associated. 



The simplest forms of styles, with a knife blade worked on 

 to them, are to be seen in figs. 32, 33, 34 and 35. 



These four figures, 32-35, together with figure 36, make the 

 first series on plate xxi 



Style No. 10717, from South Arcot. 

 Style No. 10748, from the Vizagapatam District. 

 Style No. 10750, from the Vizagapatam District. 

 Style No. 10763, from the Nellore District. 

 Style No. 10738, from Ganjam. 



Fig. 32. 



Fig. 33. 

 Fig. 34. 

 Fig. 35. 

 Fig. 36. 



Type 19. 

 Type 22. 

 Type 20. 

 Type 21. 

 Type 23. 



The simplest of all is style No. 10750 (fig. 34), from the 

 district of Vizagapatam, which may be used as the starting 

 point of a series. We may group the similar styles to be found 

 in the Indian Museum Collection as follows : — 



Type 18, long thin style with straight blade, 



Vizagapatam, 10750 (fig. 34), and 10754. 

 Type 19, thin style, blade turned at an angle of about 30°, 



South Arcot, 10717 (fig. 32). 

 Type 20, thin style, blade sickle-shaped, 



Vizagapatam, 10758 (not figured, is, as it were, an 

 exaggeration of the next, fig. 35). 

 Type 21, very long, otherwise as type 21 , 



Nellore, 10763 (fig. 35). 

 Type 22, thin style, blade turned about at an angle of 90° , 



Vizagapatam, 10748 (fig. 33). 



It is noteworthy that they all come from the Coromandel 

 Coast, whence come also the' thin styles that have no knife 

 blades attached. 



The weight and length of these pens are as follows : 



District of Origin. 



Length in 

 Inches. 



Vizagapatam 

 Vizagapatam 

 South Arcot 



Vizagapatam 

 Nellore 



Vizagapatam 



10748 

 10758 

 10717 

 10754 



1076* 



10750 



Weight in 

 Ounces. 



Distance 

 in inches of 

 the Centre of 

 Gravity from 



12 



16 



17 



1^ 



4 1 

 13 



the tip. 





4{ 



3 

 5 



6 

 9 A 

 9 



Styles such as these just described, lead up to the very 



characteristic 



