Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th July 2024, 01:04 PM
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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, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: European Armoury
12th July 2024, 02:00 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 86,815
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, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 34,758
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Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2024, 05:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 41,070
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th May 2024, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,339,503
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, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 61,934
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, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 21
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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, 04:04 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 27,550
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Forum: European Armoury
7th May 2024, 01:06 AM
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Replies: 12
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd May 2024, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 43,292
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, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 41,070
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, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 41,070
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, 06:25 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, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 33,639
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, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 32,685
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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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd April 2024, 12:03 AM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
5th April 2024, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 14,333
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd April 2024, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 31,575
A nice example
It will not surprise me if you discover no break hidden under the reinforcing plates. I have seen such plates on many takouba; the forte is the strongest part of a blade, so breaks there should not...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
1st April 2024, 06:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 14,333
Whatzit?
This found me at an antique store last week. The serpentine wooden handle is made as two parts, joined by an aluminum sleeve. The small blade appears irregularly serrated. I presume this is a tool...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th March 2024, 03:37 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,281
Atlatl from where?
Another item a friend recently bought at an upstate New York auction. The overall length is 35 inches. Where is this from?
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,189
Closest match yet!
Closest match yet! The blade in the original post above is just under 8 inches in length.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,189
Thank you all for your instructive and...
Thank you all for your instructive and educational insights. The blade does seem so entirely utilitarian, so perhaps this carved dress was added to a tool blade for sale to the traveler? I should add...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th March 2024, 06:54 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,189
Presumed Wedung with Figural Hilt
A friend recently acquired this at a local auction. The blade appears very much to be a simple working version of a wedung that has seen use. I seem to recollect discussion of the same entity as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 10:06 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 35,869
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