Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st October 2025, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,619
Ian,
On my hilt pins are steel and the strip...
Ian,
On my hilt pins are steel and the strip at the base of the hilt is silver. I do not have a firm data-driven estimate of the date, only what the seller has told me. The saifani hilt gets...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st October 2025, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,619
For comparison, my jambiya
Hello,
Welcome Sully! Very interesting to see your jambiya, an older example. I very much like to hear the stories told to you by the elders.
For comparison, here is my ‘aseeb (assib) janbiya...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd October 2025, 06:58 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 10,377
Preventing lost knowledge
I greatly appreciate Turkoman’s comment,
This is why I decided very early in my collecting that I would preserve everything I could find out about a specific item in my collection. Jim and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd October 2025, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 10,480
Auction houses and tariffs
Hello,
I have noticed in the past two weeks that a few auction houses have begun to explicitly state that they won’t ship to the US. I just tried to order a rare book from a Bulgaria bookseller,...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th September 2025, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 45,638
Formal ontology for
Thanks very much. I'm interested in helping out with the ontology. There is a huge treasure trove of expertise here in the forum and especially in the archives. The quality of semantic classification...
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Forum: Swap Forum
24th September 2025, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 9
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Book?
Who is publishing the book?
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd September 2025, 09:52 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 45,638
Terrific! Now who else can help?
Dana,
Thanks for including the machine readable format. You sound like an expert in semantic data systems. Surely you must know of an eager grad student who will take the task further? It’s worth...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd September 2025, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 45,638
Ethnographic weapon ontology/vocabulary?
Hi,
Resurrecting this thread with high hopes!
I’m super interested in finding a digitized vocabulary (ontology) similar to Dublin Core (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/) for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 24,716
Er, yes but there is more
I struggle with this question too. It is actually a much broader dilemma than Ivory. Take a look at the CITES regulations. Yes, there are some holes in it but basically it prohibits ownership,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 10:48 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 33,556
We collect stories
Friends,
This is always an interesting discussion. There are often some new things to be said from a unique point of view. I have been thinking about the topic lately and perhaps you find this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th September 2025, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 77,209
Still available resource Finish knives
Friends,
I’d like to second Rich S.’s recommendation for this book. As off September 2025, it is still available in paperback. The b/w images are a little hard to see but there is a great deal of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th September 2025, 01:20 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 28,055
P.S. Searching for bichaq info
Hi, sorry I missed participating in the hunt!
For future searches, remember there are lots of different ways to spell the name for a knife as well as different names for the same artifact. Search...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st September 2025, 05:23 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 19,503
ChatGPT strikes again
Thank you! I tried ChatGPT first and that’s where the obscure Chinese information came from. The engraving is off-center like it was stamped with a machine. That’s what first clued me in that it was...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th August 2025, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 19,503
Always learning
As the title says. Luckily this was not an expensive lesson.
Dave
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th August 2025, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 19,503
What is it, really?
Hello all,
I recently won a sword at auction. It was advertised to be an Indian Tulwar, but I knew that was wrong. I was thinking Persian or elsewhere in the Gulf region. That’s also wrong. So...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th July 2025, 08:13 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 20,586
Thank you for flysssa info
Excellent info on the flyssa and context. Thank you for posting. This is exactly why I joined the forum — to learn from experts.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th June 2025, 06:24 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,808
Request Advice on Collection data
Hello,
I am beginning a complete overhaul of my website and content that I collect to document my collection and present it for others (family, collectors, education, research). I’ve decided to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th February 2025, 10:59 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 72,882
Pair of Chinese Hook Swords
Greetings all,
I am also fascinated by the hook swords and other weapons of complex design where function is sometimes hard to discern. I recently won the pair shown in this picture at auction,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st January 2025, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 38,570
My Chilean knife
Hello All.
Just for completeness, here is the Chilean knife in my collection referred to by Al.
-- Dave A.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2023, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
404
Sadly, the URL is malformed, perhaps because it is too long, and your link goes nowhere. Will you please try again?
Dave A.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2023, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
Sajen,
Thank you for the examples! When I...
Sajen,
Thank you for the examples! When I think of stacked hilts, these are what comes to mind. What was (and remains) confusing is the thickness and decoration of the layers of the stack. Dots,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st January 2023, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
Machine shop craft? I doubt it.
This is fascinating. I have never heard of such a thing.
I have the knife in front of me now. Arguing against your machine-shop thesis is the mis-alignment of the dots on the middle red stack...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st January 2023, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
Chilean stacked hilts
Ian,
Thanks for your comments. I have been searching online for more examples of Chilean knives other than corvo. Stacked hilts especially. I did a Google image search just on the hilt that came...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th January 2023, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th January 2023, 09:38 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 139,269
Identification help please
Here is one of my mystery knives. The seller thought it might be from Chile. I do see the Spanish influence, for example in the stacked hilt and quilions. I know next to nothing about Chilean knives....
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