Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 05:08 PM
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Replies: 5
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recent service outage
I have moved these posts to their own thread. More to come on the recent service outage in due course.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th March 2024, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 5
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You may need to 'refresh' the page in your...
You may need to 'refresh' the page in your browser after calling it up. This is done by clicking the little circle with an arrow to the left of the address in both edge and chrome.
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 02:12 PM
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Replies: 12
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Failsafe
I did some further reading after repeating the internet search and find descriptions (roughly translated from Spanish) that the puntilla toros is a essentially a slaughterhouse implement used in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 02:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 59,138
puntilla toros
Thank you C4RL, after doing an image search, I think that puntilla toros is a very good suggestion. I happened to be at their owner's place earlier today and took another look. The tips thin out...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th February 2024, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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Just as the crossguard shows darker (more...
Just as the crossguard shows darker (more radiolucent) areas of less density suggesting old weld or fold lines from the forging process, the pommel also likely has such areas within its mass that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th February 2024, 03:43 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 52,669
Here is a link to the NMB thread: ...
Here is a link to the NMB thread:
https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/47763-possible-jingasa/
A jingasa was certainly my own first thought when this item was posted.
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Forum: European Armoury
7th February 2024, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 5
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Forum: European Armoury
6th February 2024, 04:00 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 69,334
Not inconsistent with an authentic antique
Indeed it does and the terrain is much more treacherous now than when I started collecting such things 40 years ago this month. I believe it has been more than a decade now since I have indulged.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th January 2024, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 14,683
A very nice nimcha with respectable age!...
A very nice nimcha with respectable age! Celestial symbols are frequently found on blades made in Europe for export. The crecent moon symbol on this sword is of a form strongly suggesting European...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 02:08 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 15,207
The texture and corrosion pattern of the blade...
The texture and corrosion pattern of the blade are most convincing for authentic antiquity. Gavin is likely correct and I also hold a suspicion that this might be a portion of a longer sword blade...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 15,207
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd December 2023, 04:51 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 35,345
I will 'guestimate' that the original poster's...
I will 'guestimate' that the original poster's dagger is from the 1970s. It is an attractive piece of work. When I traveled in the area around 2000, this was already an old style. Our guide cautioned...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th December 2023, 03:04 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 166,406
You can still see some of the old UBB threads...
You can still see some of the old UBB threads courtesy of the internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Enter one of the URLs above on this page at http://wayback.archive.org/ and it will indicate what...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th December 2023, 10:57 PM
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Replies: 1
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Gold standard provenance
A very nice sword with the added bonus that you know where it has been for over a hundred years! (I tried for the single-edged Viking sword from Christensen's collection when that group came up a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
9th December 2023, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 59,138
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
23rd November 2023, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 59,138
Clearly tools, but for what purpose?
A friend recently acquired this trio of sharp, pointy things at an upstate New York auction of a large ethnographic collection. I believe that these started out as files and have been modified to...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th October 2023, 05:53 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 47,131
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
11th October 2023, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 38,483
Antiques trade ethics
The scale of the disparity is surely relevant, 33,871x versus 66x (at asking price), as is the absolute amount of money involved! When a typical collector buys from a dealer, remember that the dealer...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th October 2023, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 75,439
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th September 2023, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 11,965
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Forum: European Armoury
16th September 2023, 05:50 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 15,809
A little further off topic, but
Though it excludes daggers, swords and sword fittings, there is an interesting monograph on excavated knives, their leather scabbards as well as other cutlery such as scissors from the Museum of...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th September 2023, 08:19 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 15,809
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Forum: Swap Forum
5th September 2023, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 4
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IVORY, RHINO, ETC.: Not worth taking a chance...
Users are most strongly cautioned that trade in ivory, rhinoceros horn and many other derivatives from 'endangered wildlife' may be prohibited or severely restricted by various local, national and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th August 2023, 06:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,151
An Indian Musket from the Flea Market
An interesting 'old soldier' found at the Bouckville flea market yesterday. I presume from the style and inscription on the stock that this is likely a deaccession from an Indian armory. You cannot...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th August 2023, 06:43 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,451
More glorious than as depicted in David Lean's...
More glorious than as depicted in David Lean's film! I never had directly seen actual examples of this clothing of this era until this spring at the Brimfield flea market. Apparently, there was a...
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