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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Moscow, Russia
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The basic thought - a shashka has occurred from a Circassian knife for cutting grapevine.
The form of hilt - roundish and doubled ears (as yatagan) - simulates a bone. The handle rotates in a arm as though the additional joint works. Therefore the weapon is continuation of a hand. |
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