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I have bought this piece from Freddy D'hont.
He has posted it here over one year ago, but its identification wasn't quite clarified. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=freddy After the various considerations were woven,the similar example sugested by Emanuel was an eBay link that was removed in the mean time ... which i regret i didn't see. The pictures shown in the thread and the sugestion that this could be an Indonesian clurit, don't seem to give the right evidence ... i would say. This could indeed be a chopper of some kind, not certainly for light use, as its 840 grams weight ( almost two pounds) gives it a trough and an impact similar to a timber cutting axe ... if that is good for an example. Its blade has a thickness of 10 m/m at the socket starting point. If it has not been created as a weapon, it would certainly make a formidable one. I also don't think it has once been a pole arm, as it looks to heavy and not handy to be in the point of a long haft ... again i would say. I thaught that, after all this time, with the incoming of new members and also more experiences had by the "veterans", someone could be familiar with this apparently strange device, as to favour me with some idea of what it could be and where it comes from. Fernando |
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Complete guess work but there is some similarity to the native weapons of Formosa or modern day Taiwan. It might be a good idea to get in touch with our fellow member "yanchouming" "zanchouming" if that is the right spelling. There are not many members starting with a Y or Z so it is not hard.
This is the chap----yuanzhumin Sorry I have just read the link thread and we have been down that road. Does not mean it is completely wrong. ![]() Last edited by Tim Simmons; 28th June 2008 at 07:50 PM. Reason: read the link |
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That seems to be a banana knife I think? Saw something very similar in an old catalog some years back. Definately a farming tool.
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Thank you Tim, for your willing to help.
Thank you Lew. So i will consider this a specimen of the banana choppers family. I will be browsing the Net for the next few days, to try and find one of such kind; allways a pleasure to spot an identified specimen similar to ours. If ever you or any member remembers where to find pictures of one of these, i will much obliged. Thanks again. |
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Thank you Stuart.
Besides the grooves, it also has a hole through the grip to pass a lanyard of some sort. I wish i could spot somewhere one of these things, well identified, with either a short handle or a long haft, before i go bananas myself ![]() Fernando |
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Hi Fernando,
here is a modern traditional banana knife http://www.fao.org/inpho/content/doc.../ae615e031.htm Kind Regards David |
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