Forum: European Armoury
11th January 2009, 05:09 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
10th January 2009, 05:46 AM
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Replies: 16
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Dear Rick,
I would ask you to consider a couple of aspects. Firstly, the basic elements of the pistol seems to be well fashioned. The wood, the brass trigger guard and butt tang, and the lock seem to belong...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
5th January 2009, 09:27 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 14,695
Dear Maisey,
Couldn't agree more.
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Dear Maisey,
Couldn't agree more.
However, the forum may be a good place to at least broadly outline the forms if only to be able discuss them. The published material is confusing with the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
5th January 2009, 03:50 AM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
4th January 2009, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 14,695
Hi David
Sorry I missed the thread since I had to go out of town. Now with the close up I agree that it is unlikely that it is a raksha solely since the appendage seems attached to the upper lip. As for...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
4th January 2009, 02:30 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 14,695
Dear David
Can you put up a frontal image close up. That looks like no Ganesha as you say and looks like a scorpion in the mouth. Shall look up in my iconography material.
Looks closer to the Rakshasa...
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Forum: Swap Forum
31st December 2008, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,656
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Forum: Swap Forum
30th December 2008, 04:55 PM
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Replies: 6
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Dear Runjeet & other experts
From time to time I come across Kastane swords described as having a rhino hilt. There are no rhinos in Sri Lanka at least in historic times and this has been a sticky point. I have seen the red...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2008, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,117
Anandalal N.
Greetings.
I have been following the discussion for a whilst but signed up only now. I am from Sri Lanka with an abiding interest in ancient arms and armour presently with a specific interest in...
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