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After lurking here around for some time now i am proud to present my first ancient weapon i purchased earlier this month
![]() I would appreciate your comments and remarks about it. Kind regards Andi Last edited by fernando; 13th February 2019 at 07:51 AM. Reason: Links to photo hosts not allowed, as per rules. |
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looks a bit new. uniform patination looks unusual. where did you get it from? any providence? can you post a picture looking down at the eye? i like it, no matter what age it is
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How old to be ancient, Andi ? No corrosion, or other signs of age
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I believe the patina etc of this axe head are as a result of modern "conservation" methods. I have seen several similar examples in recent times, and it could well be ancient.
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It's so-called "Byzantine" battle axe.
Here is an excavated example from Crimea. As for the discussed axe head, I'm not sure that it's authentic. |
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@all Thank you for your input
It was sold to me as byzantine broad axe , modern cleaned and conserved, to me. So evgeny was spot on with his excavated example which looks very similar. Its from a london collection which contained a lot of viking axeheads formed in the 1950s. I have attached more pictures of the axehead. It seems as there is some black coating and then some kind of wax applied on top of it. |
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