Forum: European Armoury
15th November 2014, 12:33 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 15,634
Spanish Dagger
Nothing special but I am happy to have it. Dealer said it was Spanish circa 1850 - 1900. The sheath is two matching pieces of German silver soldered together, the hilt mixed bone and brass. Blade 6"...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd November 2014, 12:51 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,013
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Forum: European Armoury
31st October 2014, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 89,293
Those pictures are overwhelming.
Wish I'd...
Those pictures are overwhelming.
Wish I'd access to this information half a lifetime ago when I built a (rifled) matchlock, copying an Italian gun with a sear bar, shown in a Robert Held book. The...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th October 2014, 12:08 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 13,600
You might get some useful information on this...
You might get some useful information on this piece if you can get an X-ray Fluoroscope analysis. The process leaves no marks at all on the object. On your piece one would analyze that crusty scale...
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Forum: Swap Forum
30th September 2014, 02:41 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,264
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Forum: Swap Forum
27th September 2014, 11:06 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,264
Gold, Silver & Bronze Mughal India
Was on a book buying spree trying to learn something about peacocks. Accidentally ordered this one twice on abebooks. About 9 x 12 inch (23.3 x 3-.5cm). New, still in wraps. 363 numbered pages. 50 or...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st September 2014, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 34,183
Oil will render 19th & 20th century priming...
Oil will render 19th & 20th century priming compound safe.
Does anyone here know, in fact, that oil will keep corned black powder from igniting? Personally I rather doubt it.
Black powder...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
13th September 2014, 09:55 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 37,163
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Forum: European Armoury
8th September 2014, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,159
Just a metallurgical aside.
"Cast iron...
Just a metallurgical aside.
"Cast iron cannot be wrought and wrought iron cannot be cast."
This was a true saying through the 19th century, at least in the Western World.
Steel takes...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th September 2014, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,917
Yak bone?
This was my low-cost impulse buy Saturday at the Michigan show. I was told it was from Tibet. Otherwise I know nothing of it. Judging by the use of aluminum for one pin & part of the hilt decoration...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st August 2014, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 11,885
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th August 2014, 04:38 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th August 2014, 03:02 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
Oh, well.
My son helped clean up my computer...
Oh, well.
My son helped clean up my computer a bit.
Naturally we went to this site for pictures of my katar.
Andrew does not collect, nor has he any particular knowledge of, edged weapons.
He...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th August 2014, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th August 2014, 01:13 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
Don't believe them, Jens - I am not offended.
...
Don't believe them, Jens - I am not offended.
Personally, words like "arrogant" and "prickly individual" have been used to describe me where I worked.
Yes, I do see the peacock your posted this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th August 2014, 05:22 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th August 2014, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 38,192
My Katar Collection
For comments, or just to show off my entire collection. Saw just one that appealed both to my wallet & I, here it is. The dealer says it is from South India - Srirangam or Tanjore, late 16th century,...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th May 2014, 12:57 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 15,586
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Forum: Swap Forum
8th May 2014, 12:50 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,281
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Forum: Swap Forum
4th May 2014, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,281
Books - Figiel and Elwood
I liked these books so well I ended up with one extra of each.
Leo S. Figiel, M.D. On Damascus Steel, new hardcover,still in plastic. First edition, 1991 Atlantis Arts Press, 145 pages. $30 plus...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
1st May 2014, 09:18 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 10,570
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
30th April 2014, 12:53 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 10,570
Thank you both.
Just like with antique guns,...
Thank you both.
Just like with antique guns, one must, I believe, personally handle and examine many of these objects, along with reading what is available, before being able to make a decent...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
29th April 2014, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 10,570
old keris for comments
Long a gun collector, I bought my first keris last year. Wonderful information from this group & I am very aware of my complete ignorance of this area. Yes, I am told that it is the blade, not the...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd February 2014, 12:46 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,125
Metals
An on-line antique gun magazine just published a 26 page article I wrote on 19th Century weapons (mostly) of wrought iron, cast steel, gray and malleable iron, brass, bronze, German silver pewter,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th February 2014, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 8,284
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