Glaive/polearms supposedly from Congo
 

I just won the auction for these two. I assume it's some sort of "knife on a stick" polearm like a glaive or fauchard. Both are about 33cm long, single edged. They sort of look like machete blades welded to a spear socket. The blades look like they could have been made yesterday out of scrap metal, but the sockets look older with better crafstmanship.

It seems most cultures have weapons of this type but I haven't seen any others from Africa. Are these weapons or some sort of farming implement?

Look Asian to me. Lands bordering China?

Agree with Tim, they look like they coming from mainland SEA.

Regards,
Detlef

Hmm. The seller appears to be liquidating somebody else's collection so I'm not surprised he got the origin wrong. Most of his stuff is from Congo or Indonesia. Maybe it's from Indonesia?

Never seen something similar from Indonesia. :shrug:

The faceted sockets usually indicate Chinese workmanship, the crosshatched bands take it to around the first half of the 20th century.

Any idea what it might have looked like on the pole or been used for? If the OAL is only 14 inches then the blade must only be 7 or 8 inches. Seems awfully small.

These suckers arrived today. They're quite sturdy and heavily built. There's still some wood particles in the socket and the edges has some dings on them, so I guess they were actually mounted and used at some point. Nothing else really to report other than some markings on the spine which I've attached a picture of. I'd love to remount them on an appropriate pole if I knew what it was supposed to look like.

It`s definitely not from Congo or any other African country. Doesn`t look European to me either. I would say China or close to it.