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4th October 2008, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Italia
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Just another moro....
I always loved this hilt with rattan bands and this one shows also a nice laminated blade with some kind of "wootz" sections. What is? cristallin structure of the iron? Also the cacatooa pommel was made by a nice banati (?) wood
Flavio |
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5th October 2008, 02:35 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Nice piece,
That looks like exposed crystal structure visible from heavy etching. Wrought iron will often look very similar to this. |
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5th October 2008, 02:43 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
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Nice puppy and complete. Yes not unheard of at all to have a crystalline pattern to the metal. Not wootz, but certainy crystalline structure. I had a budiak spear with a similar section to it (I think VVV has it now.).
Looks like the scabbard is missing 3 brass bands.... |
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5th October 2008, 10:05 AM
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Location: Italia
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Jose, you have a sharp eye  The scabbard had lost sme bands, that in original were made of brass, as the one on the bottom but in a second time were substituted by rattan stripes that were lost again. I will restore when I have some times 
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