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21st August 2024, 09:03 PM
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Gile Jile or what have you.
Picked this up at a local arms fair on Sunday, well shabby and I nearly left it on the table but had second thoughts. I didn't have one and we don't see them that often in my neck of the woods. The dealer reckoned it was a Foreign Legion bringback as told him by the family he bought it from. It makes no odds, I buy the blades not the stories.
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21st August 2024, 11:54 PM
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22nd August 2024, 03:17 PM
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Not a bad specimen, the blade is a bit rough and if you redo the wire (silver?) it will look much better.
Regards Marc |
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22nd August 2024, 04:28 PM
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I certainly intend to sort out the wire, which looks more like brass when in hand. And that is probably all I will do, it's a plain and basic example and as we say here in the Isle of the MIghty, "You can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear"!
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22nd August 2024, 05:51 PM
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Quote:
 Building on advances in the synthetic-fiber industry, Arthur D. Little had 100 pounds of sows’ ears reduced to glue, which the company’s chemists then dissolved, filtered, and finally turned into fiber. The “silk” fiber was woven into two small purses that resemble the kind used by French nobility in the Middle Ages. Today one purse is stored at the National Museum of American History, while the other is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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22nd August 2024, 11:02 PM
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A bit of fun ..... but not really relevant to the case in hand!
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