Forum: European Armoury
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Forum: European Armoury
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Great topic Wayne! and very nice example of a...
Great topic Wayne! and very nice example of a 'Bowie', one of the most ubiquitous and legendary knives ever! Seldom discussed here, so wanted to add what I can, sort of a treasured subject, years ago...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd May 2025, 02:28 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
1st May 2025, 04:33 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2025, 03:36 PM
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Thank you so very much for responding!!! and...
Thank you so very much for responding!!! and especially with this information which is incredibly helpful.
It has always been curious to me why communicating with Italy is so difficult, and why, as...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2025, 03:36 AM
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Italian Readers-CASTEL SANT ANGELO
Does anyone have suggestions on how to find history of the armory at Castel Sant Angelo in Rome, any catalogs of holdings?
Any way to reach officials controlling these areas of this historic...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th April 2025, 09:56 PM
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Oliver thank you so much for coming in on...
Oliver thank you so much for coming in on this!!Well noted on the fact that the place where a sword is found, whether intact, as a heirloom, trophy or as in this case, an excavated relic ...makes...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2025, 07:29 PM
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Hi Maurice,
Keep in mind that the blades used...
Hi Maurice,
Keep in mind that the blades used on these were invariably from many sources, most typically those entering the North African sphere as trade commodities. As with most ethnographic...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2025, 04:55 PM
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Maurice, perfect entry!!! and of course not at...
Maurice, perfect entry!!! and of course not at all 'interfering' !! The idea here is discussion not just of one example, but of the form in general to see and learn from the scope of examples shared....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2025, 04:57 AM
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LOL! good one werecow :)
Well noted that this...
LOL! good one werecow :)
Well noted that this clearly desperate attempt at the fabled ANDREA FERARA inscription is far from the mark by a native individual in one of the countless trade entrepots...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2025, 05:57 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2025, 03:17 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2025, 12:25 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2025, 10:45 PM
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On the BATE origin of this saber
Though this saber and looking into this hypothesis clearly did not bring much attention overall, except as always the valuable input by our late Fernando (miss him)...for me these 'cold cases' never...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2025, 09:44 PM
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Excellent and MOST esoteric! It seems there was...
Excellent and MOST esoteric! It seems there was far more cross diffusion of British and French blades than realized in these times, as if the Napoleonic campaigns were not confusing enough!!
Clearly...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2025, 06:07 PM
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GILL BLADES
While the topic here is the use of the British M1796 cavalry saber in Spanish use, I wanted to again expand on how widely popular these actually were.
If I recall, the French had actually regarded...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th April 2025, 03:00 PM
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As well noted by Kahnjar, Zanzibar was a key...
As well noted by Kahnjar, Zanzibar was a key trade center in the 19th century and of course being an Omani sultanate, there were considerable numbers of the types of edged weapons commonly in use in...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd April 2025, 09:12 PM
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Good note Glen!
As this is an eagle head, and...
Good note Glen!
As this is an eagle head, and Im deferring to you as you know these better than anyone else, would these be an American example using British (obviously) blade? If I recall Gill and...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st April 2025, 06:49 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th April 2025, 02:34 AM
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It seems that the James Wooley & Thomas Deakin...
It seems that the James Wooley & Thomas Deakin partnership long held to be in years 1800-1803 (Annis & May)actually predated that to 1790.
James Wooley supplied bayonets during c.1793.
Obviously...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th April 2025, 11:02 PM
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The occurrence of mismatched (by issuance...
The occurrence of mismatched (by issuance numbers, units etc) swords and scabbards is of course well known but determining the circumstances of these cases surely has numbers of various...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th April 2025, 01:03 AM
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Brass hilt cutlass
The center example of the fluted ebony grip brass hilt cutlass is one Mark Eley had and we discussed here in 2008. Note that his example of the same type hilt differs in having the regular hollow...
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Forum: European Armoury
17th April 2025, 10:56 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th April 2025, 12:25 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th April 2025, 12:16 AM
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These old British cavalry swords are the most...
These old British cavalry swords are the most fascinating and historic weapons ever IMO, as my earliest collecting days began with them in the mid 60s.
I have a totally unmarked version of the...
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