Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th June 2018, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 11,350
Another Colombian Nimcha
I have this thing traveling to me. The seller does not seem to know what a Nimcha is. Sorry for the pictures, they are the sellers, but I do not know when I will get the time for doing better ones.
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Forum: European Armoury
26th June 2018, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,190
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Forum: European Armoury
25th June 2018, 07:27 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,190
Suspicious Rapier hilt
Last week I got involved in an unusual trade. A friend (and fellow fencer) suddenly sent me through WhatsApp three pictures of swords taken in a hurry. He explained to me that an antiquarian had...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th June 2018, 12:32 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 18,824
Maybe there is need for a fast clarification...
Maybe there is need for a fast clarification about Toledo.
Toledo cutlers have been famous even before the christians recovered the city in XIth century. They continued functioning as a guild up...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th June 2018, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 18,824
These were from the 1870s to 1880s. There was a...
These were from the 1870s to 1880s. There was a workshop at the Toledo Factory working with silver and gold inlays. The main artisan was Zuloaga, a brother to the famous painter, although I think he...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th June 2018, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 20,250
Hi,
in 2005 I bought this sword and since...
Hi,
in 2005 I bought this sword and since then I have not seen anything like it. Maybe it is a Victorian mongrel. If I remove the branched guard and the ricasso perforated plates, I can imagine I...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd September 2017, 12:17 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,126
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Forum: European Armoury
21st September 2017, 05:48 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,126
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Forum: European Armoury
21st September 2017, 05:47 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,126
The pieces with the red background were...
The pieces with the red background were downloaded from ebay in 2005, from a guy saying something like that he found them together in a barn not far from Albuquerque. I am unable to open the original...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st September 2017, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,126
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Forum: European Armoury
21st September 2017, 01:30 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,126
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Forum: European Armoury
20th September 2017, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 102,426
Fascinating story that of the Mbele a Lulendo....
Fascinating story that of the Mbele a Lulendo. Actually I got offered one of those in 2006 and I really took it for a XVIth century Portuguese sword. I did not buy it however. I must have pictures...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th September 2017, 03:10 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 102,426
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2005, 10:09 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 46,075
mottoes
I think the reason of not finding the "no me envaines" motto earlier than late XVII is both technical and cultural. Technical because the use of cheap acid etching did not become spread before that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th June 2005, 01:13 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 46,075
embaines
Hello,
I was just passing by and saw the current discussion...
Very interesting the arscives 1991 site. Lots of interesting swords there, although some miscatalogation too. For example number 5 is...
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