Forum: European Armoury
25th October 2024, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 22
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Fernando, may he Rest in Peace
It is with sadness that I announce that Fernando passed away on October 15 in hospital following a debilitating illness of several months duration. He led a full and interesting life and the world is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th October 2024, 07:24 PM
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Replies: 5
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Forum: European Armoury
30th September 2024, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 17
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In the relevant times, European "trade" blades...
In the relevant times, European "trade" blades were widely exported and may be seen in a wide variety of regional mountings: Tuareg takoubas, Sudanese kaskaras, Mexican espada anchas and, yes,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th August 2024, 01:15 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,490
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st July 2024, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd July 2024, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 2
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Spearheads can be so tough to identify as the...
Spearheads can be so tough to identify as the same form - that works - has been repeated in so many times and places. The patina is very convincing for authenticity, a European excavated example from...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th July 2024, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 13,489
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Forum: European Armoury
13th July 2024, 01:22 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 40,673
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Forum: European Armoury
12th July 2024, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 40,673
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th July 2024, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 20,441
I, too, like this little knife. The form surely...
I, too, like this little knife. The form surely does remind one of a tanto in shirasaya, though the construction details are different. Of course, these are clearly simple working mountings rather...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
12th July 2024, 11:39 AM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: European Armoury
12th July 2024, 01:00 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 40,673
Very interesting! It appears that the eye is...
Very interesting! It appears that the eye is somewhat collapsed and has lost considerable material on one side. Direct-on views of the more intact side might help. It is absolutely amazing how much...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th July 2024, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2024, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 23,166
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th May 2024, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 26,854
Names of variations on Taureg swords and spears
Just over two decades ago there was a brief window when tourism into Tuareg territory was not strongly discouraged and attempts to develop tourism were at their peak. This ended one night when...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2024, 06:52 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 31,756
Heirlooms, not late 19th century militaria
I think David is correct in reading the tag Daho.
I found two more in my brace of Southeast Asian spears that have a reinforcing tie of the head to the pole, one is again wire but the other is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th May 2024, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 31,756
Always nice seeing another of these budiak...
Always nice seeing another of these budiak spears! Here is an old thread (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12397) with a few more examples where the head is wired to the shaft, though...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th May 2024, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 12,508
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Forum: European Armoury
7th May 2024, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 12,508
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd May 2024, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 16,051
The bright spots on the OP's blade in linear...
The bright spots on the OP's blade in linear groups remind me of nie or larger martensite crystals that may be seen in Japanese swords. David's attribution to quenching effects is probably correct.
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2024, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 23,166
Thank you Gentlemen!
I acquired this knife...
Thank you Gentlemen!
I acquired this knife about two decades ago at the London Park Lane Arms Fair from a then regularly participating dealer.
I will prepare an image of the butt end of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th April 2024, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 23,166
Scottish Sgian Dubh?
Not only a little too big to be the small knife carried in a dirk's scabbard but also having its own hardened leather sheath makes me suspect this is a sgian dubh. Unfortunately, the cap of the hilt...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 4
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Scottish Dirk, dated 1785
I was watching Kidnapped last night, admiring the dirks and remembered this example dated 1785 on the hard leather sheath. Overall sheathed length 46.3 cm with a 33.3 cm blade that becomes...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2024, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 11,711
Another variation on the same theme
I believe this example, framed under glass perhaps to deter young hands, dates to the Vietnam War era. An inscription on the back is faded, but this appears to have been sent by a serviceman in the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th April 2024, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 16,077
xasterix, I really like your kris!
I have...
xasterix, I really like your kris!
I have always been intrigued by the similarities between Moro twist core kris and spears and early to mid medieval European pattern-welded blades. In the...
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