Forum: European Armoury
24th September 2019, 11:01 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th June 2019, 08:19 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th April 2019, 01:25 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2019, 11:30 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
4th April 2019, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 34
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1921 The charge of the Alcantara Regiment to...
1921 The charge of the Alcantara Regiment to cover the disastrous pull back in Annual in Moroccan Rif.
90% of casualties after 10 charges by 700 men. They were using those Puerto Seguro straight...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th March 2019, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 24
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I think the portrait is a generic Holy Roman...
I think the portrait is a generic Holy Roman (Germanic), Emperor. He has a mustache!
Possibly Leopold I (d1705) although just kept as a decorative motif. He was the last one sporting a mustache.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st March 2019, 01:14 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2019, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2019, 12:27 PM
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Replies: 10
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Spain used a lot of 1796 after 1808, either...
Spain used a lot of 1796 after 1808, either passed by the British or purchased by many patriotic corporations.
I do not see why it should be spurious. The script is a bit Runkel-like.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2019, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th March 2019, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 21
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Ariel, the page I linked is the Oficial Gazette...
Ariel, the page I linked is the Oficial Gazette of Nueva Granada, where a search for machete imports have been made. You can see on the left that 144 machetes entered in that week of 1846 as imports....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th March 2019, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th March 2019, 09:00 PM
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Replies: 21
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Nueva Granada, after independence, would rather...
Nueva Granada, after independence, would rather buy items from England than from Spain. Actually, there exist customs list of what ships were carrying to the new country and bundles of machetes and...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th March 2019, 04:00 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
14th March 2019, 03:58 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th March 2019, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 11
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th March 2019, 11:58 PM
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Replies: 11
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Some 15 years ago at a local flea market in...
Some 15 years ago at a local flea market in Zaragoza, appeared a man selling stirrups for several months. The price he asked was some 20 euros each.
I bought 5 in different occasions and I asked...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th February 2019, 10:06 PM
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Replies: 15
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
5th February 2019, 01:14 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2019, 10:51 PM
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Replies: 14
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From the examples above (the 1610 Solingen one...
From the examples above (the 1610 Solingen one excepted), I understand that there was no diminution of the blade broadness before reaching the cross.
I am wondering if that arrangement was not...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2019, 10:38 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2019, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 14
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What I find weird is not the present piece...
What I find weird is not the present piece design, which seems logical in the evolution of sword guards, but the lack of similar examples.
1)The first possibility is that it is a real early XVIth...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th January 2019, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 77
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Recently I made a post including a...
Recently I made a post including a Spanish-Philippine hilt with a blade marked 1736 and the symbol from the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC.
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24137
I...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2019, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 14
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd January 2019, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 11
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One of the swords from the posts above, which I...
One of the swords from the posts above, which I numbered as 11 and it is described in Vicente Toledo article "Espada de cazoleta de placa" appeared in 2018 in an antiquities market web (not available...
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