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Forum: European Armoury 15th April 2025, 04:42 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,519
Posted By Rick
Engaged, a shot garland like this would spill the...

Engaged, a shot garland like this would spill the top round off the pile on near impact creating yet another problem rolling around on the deck for the poor bastards who were serving the great Guns.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th April 2025, 04:20 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,966
Posted By Rick
The wiggle at the tip looks it was done on...

The wiggle at the tip looks it was done on purpose, unless it has already had previous attempts to take the accidental kink out.
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 13th April 2025, 08:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 14,126
Posted By Rick
I agree with Ian, it's a Fish Slice serving...

I agree with Ian, it's a Fish Slice serving tableware.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st April 2025, 06:44 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 13,979
Posted By Rick
Question I would think one would be hard put to sever a...

I would think one would be hard put to sever a limb with a blow from a fleece.
Form follows function, I would think in this case.
Since we are in the same neighborhood, and this thread started out...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 27th March 2025, 04:05 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 10,092
Posted By Rick
Smile I don't get an Indonesian vibe from the carving...

I don't get an Indonesian vibe from the carving style, Drac.
I doubt it's a married piece.
I'll still go with West Africa.
It's just a gut feeling though. :o
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 27th March 2025, 05:19 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 10,092
Posted By Rick
A lovely piece of art. The first place that...

A lovely piece of art.
The first place that came to my mind was Benin and the bronzes made there.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th March 2025, 11:56 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 25,155
Posted By Rick
Exclamation I think that would be quite helpful. Ian, can...

I think that would be quite helpful.
Ian, can you please facilitate this suggestion? :)
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 22nd March 2025, 08:51 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 4,781
Posted By Rick
Thumbs up Nice Sword

Looks like black coral (akar bahar) from what I can see.
It also looks like it may have been crudely carved.
When polished the black material almost seems like it absorbs light.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th March 2025, 04:28 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 21,899
Posted By Rick
The triangular breast plate pattern on the Pueblo...

The triangular breast plate pattern on the Pueblo example looks a lot like okir.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th March 2025, 05:31 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 21,899
Posted By Rick
Possibly a comparison of the chest plate and...

Possibly a comparison of the chest plate and pueblo designs might be in order here.
Or has that already been done?
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th March 2025, 05:11 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 13,113
Posted By Rick
Smile A picture of the knife itself would be very...

A picture of the knife itself would be very helpful.
I think it may be very early 20thc or even late 19thc.
That surely is a needle. :eek:
Forum: European Armoury 5th March 2025, 10:51 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 39,565
Posted By Rick
I seem to remember seeing 20 years ago a couple...

I seem to remember seeing 20 years ago a couple of these mill balls for auction on eBay purported to be wootz cakes.
Forum: European Armoury 5th March 2025, 10:33 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 39,565
Posted By Rick
Smile Civil War Union Perhaps

I have a friend here in Massachusetts who has been a 'Yankee Horse Trader', restauranteur and collector of old stuff most of his life; we swap stuff often.
He was departing for Florida for the...
Forum: European Armoury 2nd March 2025, 07:07 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 39,565
Posted By Rick
Here's my entrant in the cannon ball division. ...

Here's my entrant in the cannon ball division.
Roughly 5" in diameter, hollow, weighs about 8 pounds but feels heavier than I would have thought. The only way to measure its weight was for me to get...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd March 2025, 06:31 PM
Replies: 191
Views: 280,913
Posted By Rick
I believe I have an Iranun Kampilan,or so...

I believe I have an Iranun Kampilan,or so Xasterix tells me. It seems that it would be pretty cumbersome for boarding another vessel but it cerainly would be a fearsome weapon once one was ashore...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st March 2025, 07:07 PM
Replies: 191
Views: 280,913
Posted By Rick
Question We seem to have overlooked the Iranun peoples...

We seem to have overlooked the Iranun peoples somehow.

https://the-iranun.blogspot.com/2011/03/brief-history-of-iranun.html
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 1st March 2025, 12:02 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 36,822
Posted By Rick
Unhappy Hi Green, It is a legal morass as is...

Hi Green,
It is a legal morass as is illustrated by the now closed discussion linked below.
I don't think there is any legal way to do this, and we don't discuss circumventing, or how to...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 19th February 2025, 07:25 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 88,285
Posted By Rick
Cool I'm with you, Jim. :) I'm about 3 miles as the...

I'm with you, Jim. :)
I'm about 3 miles as the crow flies from the wreck site; it lies offshore about where the Marconi Station was located. During my misspent youth my friends and I most likely...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 13th February 2025, 06:17 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 88,285
Posted By Rick
Smile Decrepit ships were often burned for their iron...

Decrepit ships were often burned for their iron in those times, especially if the location was as far flung as Madagascar was back then. This may contribute to the mystery about these vessels.

Now...
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 9th February 2025, 05:52 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 56,819
Posted By Rick
Of course, Detlef. There's nothing wrong with...

Of course, Detlef.
There's nothing wrong with members expressing their thoughts though. I don't think any one of us has said that this anything definite, just observations, no harm in that.:)
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 7th February 2025, 03:48 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 41,975
Posted By Rick
Thumbs up That spearhead is out of this world! Beautiful...

That spearhead is out of this world!
Beautiful panel nicely executed what's not to like?
Will you re-haft it?
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 6th February 2025, 11:43 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 92,157
Posted By Rick
Speaking of ethnicity. This cartoon of Europe...

Speaking of ethnicity.
This cartoon of Europe must be from the WW1 era.
Forum: Keris Warung Kopi 6th February 2025, 11:11 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 56,819
Posted By Rick
To me this form looks like an interpretation of...

To me this form looks like an interpretation of the Kocet Kocetan keris handle style.
I know it's a stretch, still that's what popped into my head upon first view.
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 27th January 2025, 09:54 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 88,285
Posted By Rick
Wink Possibly for the treasure hunter/s Jim, maybe not...

Possibly for the treasure hunter/s Jim, maybe not so much for the Bank and the private backers/investors when the expedition fails to produce. :(
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 23rd January 2025, 10:56 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 88,285
Posted By Rick
He's still searching for the Santa Maria, Jim....

He's still searching for the Santa Maria, Jim. The powers that be in the world of shipwreck archeology have deemed that the first discovery was not the Santa Maria.
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