Forum: Swap Forum
21st January 2020, 05:03 PM
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Book Wanted: IX-XIII a. baltų kalavijai
I am trying to find a copy of IX-XIII a. baltų kalavijai by Vytautas Kazakevičius.
If you have one for sale, please contact me by PM or at ljones@vikingsword.com with asking price and shipping...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th January 2020, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 12
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Forum: European Armoury
7th January 2020, 07:03 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 36,984
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th January 2020, 12:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,837
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th January 2020, 12:24 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,837
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd January 2020, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 13,435
Quick non-destructive elemental analysis of...
Quick non-destructive elemental analysis of metallic components may be made by X-ray fluorescence (XRF). A local scrapyard or precious metals dealer may have a such unit for scrap sorting and offer a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th December 2019, 02:42 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 14,996
Weirdly enough, at a holiday "winter solstice"...
Weirdly enough, at a holiday "winter solstice" party just this past Saturday, a friend showed me a leather whip of penile origin and indicated that it was from a bull. Until then I was in blissful...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th November 2019, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 8,740
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2019, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 14,068
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th November 2019, 12:55 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 60,320
Nice, very nice!
Two very, very nice spearheads.
The early winged one appears to definitely have one band of pattern-welding. If the meandering side to side is the 'mirror image' on the back side, then this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th October 2019, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 10,978
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Forum: European Armoury
27th October 2019, 05:32 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 12,361
Beautiful!
That is one beautiful sword regardless of where the blade was made! My initial impression is for a European origin for the blade and we know from Oakeshott’s writings that inscriptions on many old...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2019, 02:27 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 10,978
If you go to the official eBay community forums...
If you go to the official eBay community forums you will find endless GSP horror stories and complaints along these lines of inappropriate but reimbursed seizure, about shoddy repacking leading to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th October 2019, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 19,139
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st October 2019, 09:53 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 19,044
This kris is in the Museo del Ejército (Army...
This kris is in the Museo del Ejército (Army Museum) in Toledo, Spain. My thoughts on its age were similar to those expressed above, despite the fact that I have long carried a strong suspicion that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th September 2019, 06:24 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 12,063
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th September 2019, 06:03 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 19,044
Kris behind glass
Here are a few images of a kris on display in an important museum. For now, I'll not prejudice the discussion with details from the museum's descriptive tag.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th September 2019, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,819
exactly how I like them
Really nice and exactly how I like them! Whatever the reason for the unassuming hilt - and Ian's thoughts about it being mounted for serious use as a weapon make sense to me - I much prefer a great...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
10th September 2019, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 17,856
I expect this technology could give an airport...
I expect this technology could give an airport luggage or postal parcel X-ray inspection device an ability to present a fairly accurate description of the contents to a customs officer without the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd July 2019, 04:35 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 24,903
Some back of envelope calculations
So, this budiak (http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12538) is obviously not a keris, but perhaps it may, through some back of envelope conclusions provide some insight. X-Ray fluorescence...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st July 2019, 06:59 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,495
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th July 2019, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 17,551
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th July 2019, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 60,320
Technical details
The contrast within the twist core pattern-welding of the budiak that this thread started with appears to have been enhanced by a small percentage of Nickel. X-Ray fluorescence analysis (so, surface...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2019, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 10,318
No magic bullet
I think Philip is absolutely correct and that the first and primary defense against items made to deceive is having seen and handled an adequate number of known genuine artifacts in the particular...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th June 2019, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 15,721
Not wootz, but...
This blade is made of a coarsely laminated steel in which layers of contrasting alloys have first been forged parallel to the flat faces of the 'proto -' blade and then a design drilled out and the...
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