Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Firangi ? recently sold on eBay....with holes drilled into blade!!!

kronckew · 30th April 2007, 10:50 AM

i have little experience with these, but have noted a number of indian weapons with re-enforcements riveted to the blade just about where those holes are, one appearing in a current thread re cleaning

could this be a re-hilted blade that in past lives had re-enforcing plates attached?

30th April 2007, 10:50 AM	#8
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,215	i have little experience with these, but have noted a number of indian weapons with re-enforcements riveted to the blade just about where those holes are, one appearing in a current thread re cleaning could this be a re-hilted blade that in past lives had re-enforcing plates attached?