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Just a bit of fun, I've seen some pretty sweet items pictured in peoples avatars, and some fun things too!
So here's todays fun thread! Tell everyone about what you've chosen, insert a big picture, tell us the story of your avatar picture! Cheers Gene Edit: Hope I'm not missusing the forums with these threads? |
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my avatar here is simple, it's my favourite pedang grip
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A keris from my collection.
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From the past:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=avatar That thread is over a year old though, many people have changed theirs, and I never contributed, so... Mine is the makara from the guard of my first really nice piece (and the first one I posted here), this kastane. --Radleigh |
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Easy, i took the keris avatar from the ones provided. I have tried to change this on a number of occasions and i'm always told that the pic is too big....no matter how small i seem to make it. I don't know why this is.
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![]() 100X100 limit 19.5K My avatar ? Semar,complete with gas rising behind him . ![]() |
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Since the avatar pictures are so small, how about sharing big close-ups peeps?
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Mine is one of various custom made Logos made for my site when it was launched a few years back. Very talented guys at www.macrojuice.com.
Here is a another.... Runjeet |
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Mine is a Rugi hilt from Alor.
1 complete pic attached and two pics from old postcards from Alor headhunters/warriors! |
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Mine is a character from one of the many 'Benin Bronzes', from the Dahomey society famed for their art and the bravery of their warriors.
Amongst the male warriors there were 'crack elite' women (often referrred to as the Amazons)..whom were considered more ruthless than the men ![]() |
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Very Nice Bronze BTW Katana! I was wondering if you'd see this thread and tell us about it. Did you pick it up in Kent? |
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sadly the bronze is not mine....unless the British Museum will 'donate' it to me ![]() So,do you 'hail' from Pompey.....makes sense with a user name like Atlantia, my father is ex Royal Navy and was often down there ....never 'complained' about the local girls though ![]() Regards David |
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My mum's from Kent and they met at Pompey when she was a wren! I worked in Pompey for a while as a nightclub promotions manager. The place is like the wild west. The girls fight with ash-trays, high heels and/or bar stools!!!!!! I'm in devon now, much quieter. Strangely, my folks remember Pompey as a really nice place in the 50s!!!! BTW, I'll PM the BM and ask them to send the bronzes over for you ;-) Along with their indo-persian collection for me. Gene |
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I was too young to have my own money, the helmet was quiet well expensive, and my parents shoot me, …. big deception but fortunately, because that helmet was a copy Napoleon III (Indian copies 45 years ago wasn’t arrived yet on the market ….. LOL) since, my dream was always present, and never reached less than 10 years ago, I bought from an auction of collection Rambert-Rat a real Persian Khadjar « KULAH-KHUD » XVIIIe it’s my more precious item, not in value, but in feeling à + Dom |
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Thanks for sharing. I am very envious ;-) (in a nice way) The peacock feathers are just right! I have similar ones in a helmet of mine. Is the chainmail butted or rivetted? |
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and very difficult to fix the damaged parts ![]() à + Dom |
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You read my mind Dom. The first row around the bottom would provide the donor links to repair the holes, but you need a very steady hand to open the links and keep the pins. And a very fine heat source like a jewellers blowtorch. A jeweller could do it for you? You wouldn't lose any significant length on the chainmail from donating the last row? Its a lovely helmet, is the caligraphy chiselled/hand-cut or etched? I suppose like many, I am an admirer of arabic caligraphy (Although I understand none of it) Have you translated the panels on your helmet? Regards Gene |
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the caligraphy is chiselled/hand-cut *(what seems to me, at least ...) framed by gold line * correction .. at least .. I dunno ![]() no way for the cartouche translation ![]() - the alphabet used, it's well arabic - the language used, it's not arabic .... according with my sweet translator ![]() - she thing about "farsi", what could be logic, this helmet being persian ![]() à + Dom Last edited by Dom; 9th July 2008 at 10:37 AM. |
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