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20th July 2007, 07:45 PM
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An interesting old short sword blade...any ideas?
This just finished on eBay. Thought it may be African, cental 'rib; is 1/4" (approx, 7mm) blade 21" rat tail tang 5". There is two rows of dots along the centre.
Too much for a 'speclative' bid, but have my suspicions that it could be worth more than the final bid  Would anyone have any ideas as to origin ? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...9585&rd=1&rd=1 |
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20th July 2007, 07:48 PM
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Another Yaka blade
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20th July 2007, 07:50 PM
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Looks very much like an east african spear head with a shovel profile But it has no socket for the haft. Strange item.
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20th July 2007, 07:58 PM
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I think I have just found a possibility, Freddy has just started a thread on Yaka swords, one he shows has all the 'design elements' of the posted blade
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4934 Now thats synchronicity  Ah...didn't see the other postings 
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20th July 2007, 07:59 PM
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Looks like one of these to me.
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20th July 2007, 08:02 PM
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Yeah, I'm with Tim, clearly a Yaka blade
ah, the price is tooo high!!!!!!! 
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