Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st February 2018, 02:11 PM
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It's a PAI dagger (PAI= Polizia dell' Africa...
It's a PAI dagger (PAI= Polizia dell' Africa Italiana=Italian Africa Police). It was produced in 1936 for use by Somali troops in Italian service. The cross of Savoy
on the eagle's chest was omitted...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th November 2017, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 11
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TVV
Jim McDougall
In his article...
TVV
Jim McDougall
In his article Les poignards et les sabres marocains (in revue Hespéris XXVI, 1939, pp 1-28 & plates I-X), Buttin makes the following statements:
The pitones, and the D...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th November 2017, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: European Armoury
1st September 2017, 08:55 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th June 2017, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,387
The Mod. 1840 was replaced by the Mod.1860, and...
The Mod. 1840 was replaced by the Mod.1860, and that by the Mod.1895, so I suppose it is unlikely that it was still in use in 1897. But there is the Regimiento Villaviciosa, a Lancers Regiment during...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th April 2017, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 16
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Forum: European Armoury
4th April 2017, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 63
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Forum: European Armoury
15th February 2017, 09:48 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th December 2016, 03:57 PM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th December 2016, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 8,239
Motan, I notice you had the answer to Kubur’s...
Motan, I notice you had the answer to Kubur’s question ahead of me, but as you are still under probation mine got posted first. It happened to me, and it is frustrating, also a helpful answer may go...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th December 2016, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd December 2016, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 11,773
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd December 2016, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 15,654
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Forum: European Armoury
1st December 2016, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 15,654
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Forum: European Armoury
30th November 2016, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 16
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd October 2016, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 7,473
A heron's head erased holding in his beak a...
A heron's head erased holding in his beak a fish, very possibly the crest of the Beckford family, from England and Jamaica. William Beckford was Lord Mayor of London in the 1760's (probably the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd October 2016, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd October 2016, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 13,003
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Forum: European Armoury
14th October 2016, 11:22 AM
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Replies: 23
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th October 2016, 10:21 AM
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Replies: 24
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd September 2016, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 8,533
I believe this is not a maker’s but a Russian...
I believe this is not a maker’s but a Russian assay mark. The second letter is an И (Cyrillic I). It looks nearly identical to the mark of assayer A. Inozemtsev of Novocherkassk , but he was,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th August 2016, 08:18 AM
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Replies: 213
Views: 140,196
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th August 2016, 04:58 PM
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Replies: 213
Views: 140,196
Hello Kamachate,
Your posts have been very...
Hello Kamachate,
Your posts have been very interesting and informative. Searching in Loewe’s Dictionary of the Circassian Language (pub. 1854), I could find the following words for sword/sabre. Do...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th August 2016, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 535
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Forum: European Armoury
19th August 2016, 06:18 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,324
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