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We are spending an awful lot of time on an object which i have serious doubts is any kind of weapon. |
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Hi David,
Perhaps it's one of those infamous Curiosity Trap Sticks, that look like they're really important, and make us look at them far longer than we really should.... |
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At 5" tall, the only offensive use this thing could have is poking eyes out. I agree this can't be a weapon. |
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I humbly beg you to pardon me . Sure this is not a weapon. I thought i'd post this curious object for a bit of relaxation, a sort of 'fait divers', hoping not to comit such a major crime . The truth is that, forumites posted their sugestions, even assuming this is not a weapon in the first place. Being this forum the place we permanently frequent to query and discuss the items of our basic hobby (weapons), it just comes handy to break the tabu and also post here some non weapon item that crosses in our way. Surely many a member has his set of curiousities at home, besides the potential of general culture that resides in this comunity. ... one feels tempted to pop up with these riddles . Fernando |
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7th August 2009, 06:05 PM | #36 |
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Considering how often we talk about weapon-like objects (African money spears, for instance?), I'm not bothered by this. As Fernando noted, it is different. Also, this is August, and if we don't do something different, we'll get stale
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August is duck and cover month here (where I live), Fearn .
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But seriously Fernando, i was just commenting. Don't get so defensive. You have committed no major crime here. I must admit though that i am rather hoping it still turns out to be a weapon some how, though i strongly doubt it. Maybe you could go out and mug someone with it to see if it is effective. Crime or not though i do hope this doesn't start a trend here of everyone dragging out their unidentified non-weapon curios for discussion. That could get old fast IMO. |
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Judging by our local news Tourists draw more blood .
Anyway, Fernando's post is not without precedent . http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002485.html Last edited by Rick; 8th August 2009 at 12:22 AM. |
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Ethiopian Coptic artefact.
This object intrigues me and bugs the hell out of me!
I'm thinking now that it could be a Coptic 'hand cross', used in blessings and processions. It's fairly crudely carved, so maybe a rural village priest made it. The other thing it may be, along the same lines, is as a ritual object used to handle or hold the vellum prayer scrolls, some of which are only a few inches wide. alternatively, it's a Kenyan Salad server.. |
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I have been at the seller again. He told me he has this thing for quite some time; doesn't even remember where or who he got it from.
He wants some money for it. Not much, but i consider it expensive; anyway, an amount i am not willing to pay. I handled it again and noticed a certain detail; something new to add to the reasoning of what this device would be: the area between the 'forks' is not of square section, but fairly angular. I don't think this only esthetical, but instead 'sharpened' like that to serve a purpose. Fernando . |
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This thing really does look like a domestic tool of some kind. I still feel it is ti do with a craft of some kind, perhaps a pushing tool or parting tool? maybe a traditional womens craft like this ebay item and these things fetch good money.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT |
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I (surprisingly) didn't buy it, although its price is five times less than that one in ebay.
... And i still don't know what it is . |
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