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Dear colleagues,
That's what appeared recently at our local arms forum, its' owner doesn't know what it is and neither do I, but it seems for me it's hardly a weapon but maybe a tool of a carpenter, or a kitchen tool (?). It also has some marking in arabic Please judge...thank you all in advance! Last edited by Rick; 31st January 2012 at 03:34 PM. |
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Any dimensions? Looks as if it could be a chisel of some sort. Does the knob at the top show any signs of having been hit?
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Interesting piece, Id guess a kitchen tool, could be cleaver,tenderiser,flipper etc.
Are any of the edges sharp? If so which? Spiral |
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Interesting item, no idea what it is however. Not a cooking tool, or for any kind of cleaving, not sure of the size but could be a shoemakers tool. Anyways, the 2 smaps in the bottom read استاد شبان Ustaad Shabaan. Ustaad means a teacher as well as a master, so it could be make by Ustaad Shabaan or was for him. Shabaan is a name but also means shepard. Get me a better picture of the top stamo and I can see what it reads.
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Looks like a builders 'brick chisel' or stonemasons tool.
The mushroom end suggests it was to be struck. I'm guessing it is 'sharp' on the opposite end, not on the sides? |
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This is Persian meat cleaver. probably of Qajar period.
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this one is easy. its all in the books
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I dunno, to me it just does not make sense that all along people were using regular meat cleavers and all of a sudden they went retarded and started making not so useful meatcleavers. All the classical books I had read when I was younger depiced them as we see them now, even today I checked my old Persian dictionary and surprisingly it had a drawing of a meatcleaver that looked as it does today. who knows, then again Western books gave many wrong names to items that make the local people
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