The visit to the National Museum in Bangkok was very pleasant.
I had the opportunity to meet with the Director, Mr. Somchai Na Nakhonphanom, who was accompanied by Curator Miss Jarunee Incherdchai as Mrs. Nattapat was not in Bangkok.

We met at Mr. Somchai's office along with Miss Jarunee where I was able to firstly show a complete set of our Museum's photographs, while I understood they had problems replying to faxes. I will call in the future.
They were quite understanding and very willing to cooperate within their limitations, since I mentioned that it was first priority to get a loan on royal swords. This was considered very difficult since they belong to the Royal House and are symbols of Royal power and authority.
We discussed at lenght, from Museum to Museum, very openly.
Mr. Somchai became increasingly relaxed and came up with a solution that can be feaseble which is to ask the owner to loan the sword that Rama III bestowed to his generalissimo (I believe - see picture below) which by all means can be considered a Royal Sword.
Miss Jarunee accompanyed me to visit the collections.

At the end of the talks we can see Mr. Somchai smiling openly. Most difficult things were spoken openly.

These short swords are from the Ayudhya Period and most of them appear to be carved in ivory.

Detail of the handles.

Apart from the obvious interest in showing some of the polearms, it is a pitty that the blades are not polished to show what activity they contain. I noticed that at least one pole arm was definetly a naginata.

This is a picture of the King Rama III sword that was given to the generalissimo (click for larger view). Top sword.
Note: Interestingly it is a sword that very much resembles a katana, specially the guard, the kurikata in the scabbard and the handle shape.

Larger details of the two lower swords which seem to be much more of a Thai flavour.

This is the picture of the Generalissimo whom Rama III gave the sword.