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Found this odd pole arm, broad single edge blade.
Anyone have any Idea where it may have come from? Doesn't look European to me. |
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Is there more of a socket / ferrule / sleeve below the blade than is in the photo you provided? What is the diameter of the shaft? There appear to be two non--ferrous sleeves or bands added on, what materials are they made of?
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The fittings on it are made of pewter, rattan, dyed rattan and cord, Here's a better picture that shows it is NOT a pole arm after all. The blade appears to be an asian laminate with a differential heat treatment and even has a hamon. Size in total is 17-1/2 ins, blade is 10 ins long and 2-1/2 ins width, thickness of the spine is just over 1/8th inch. The pewter sleeve from the haft looks like it had been chewed by a puppy and has come loose and needs some TLC (see bottom photo), probably why the original photo had part not shown. Looks vaguely asian, but from where? the trapezoidal twisted rattan wrap looks kinda like a moro kris baca-baca in that it appears to hold the blade to the handle behind the initial bolster bit:
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The blade looks like the blade of a Chinese "river pirates" knife.
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Thought of that, have a hudeidao or two, this one is WAY too thin for that.
Last edited by kronckew; 25th October 2019 at 02:18 PM. |
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Agreed, too thin (and small) to be from a hudiedao or any polearm, The non ferrous additions don’t look very Chinese to me, the workmanship reminds me of some SE Asian areas. The lamellar structure with differential heat treat is a pan-Far East phenomenon, seen on blades from Siam up to Korea and Japan to Inner Asia. Even on domestic tools. It is characteristic of Moro blades from Mindanao, and so forth. If you polished your hudiedao blades you’ll see the same thing.
That being said, there could be a possibility that your piece, wherever it was originally made, may have started out as a domestic knife rather than intended as a weapon, per se. It’s been around the block quite a bit and I find the additions and modifications interesting. |
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I think he was thinking of one of these more recent wing chun dancing knives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-cJdG_fr4 Last edited by kronckew; 25th October 2019 at 04:04 PM. |
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Where did you find this picture? Are they really Chinese knives? thanks Kubur |
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